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GENEALOGICAL REGISTER
OF THE
FIRST SETTLERS
OP
NEW^-ENGIiAND;
CONTAINING
AN ALPHABETICAL LIST OF THE
6oVXB!fOURt,
DaPUTT-OOTBRNOUHS,
Assistants or CouirBBLL.oRS, and
MiiriSTBRS OF TMB GoBPBL in the several Col-
onies, from 1630 to 109S ;
Rbprssbntativks op thb Gbitbral Court
or Hassacmusbtts, from 1634 to 1693 ;
Graduatbs or Harvard Collbob to 1663 $
MbMBBRS or THB AnCIBNT AirO HoifOURASLa
Artillbrt Company to 1663}
Frebmbn admitted to the Massachusetts Colo-
ny from 1630 to 1668: with many other of the
early inhabitants of New-England and Ijone-
Island, N. Y., from 1630 to the year 1675 1
TO WHICH ARE ADDED
VARIOUS GENEALOGICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES,
COLLECTED FROM ANCIENT RECORDS, MANUSCRIPTS,
AND PRINTED WORKS.
BY JOHN PARMER,
CORRBSPOlfOINO 8B0RBTART Or THB NBW-MAlCPSRlRa
HISTORICAL SOCIBTT.
Mnltitades of pious, peaceable Protestants were driven to leave their native country, and seek
a refuge for their lives and liberties, with freedom for the worship of God, in a wilderness, in the
ends of the earth. Dr. John OwBit.
Oar ancestors, though not perfect and infallible in all respects, were a religions, brave, and
virtuous set of men, whose love of liberty, civil and religious, brought them from their native
land into the American desert. Dr. JowATHAit Mathbw.
LANCASTER, MASS.
PUBLISHED BT CARTER, ANDREWS, &; CO.: SOLD BT filLLIARD, ORAT, & CO.
AND CARTER &, HENDEE, BOSTON.
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DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS.— to trnt:
District Clerk'.s Office.
BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the sixth day of October, A. D. 1829, in the
fifty-fourth year of the Independence of the United States of America, Carter,
Andrews, & Co. of the said district, have deposited in this office the title of a book,
the right whereof they claim as proprietors, in the words following, to wit :
cuiu iriiiiiSierB ui iiie vjruBpei m lue bcvcdu VyUiuiucB, iruiu xvjuu \\m iu^^> j xvcpicocjuMK*
tives of the General Court of Massachusetts, from 1634 to 1692 j Graduates of Har-
vard College to 1662 } Members of the Ancient and Honourable Artillery Company
to 1662} freemen admitted to the Massachusetts Colony from 1630 to 1662; with
many other of the early inhabitants of New-England and Long-Island, N. Y., from
1620 to the year 1675 : to which are added Various Genealogical and Biographical
Notes, collected from ancient records, manuscripts and printed works. By JokN
Farmer, Corresponding Secretary of the New-Hampshire Historical Society.
Multitudes of pious, peaceable Protestants were driven to leave their native coun-
try, and seek a refuge for their lives and liberties, with freedom for the worship of
God, in a wilderness, in the ends of the earth. Dr. John Owen.
Our ancestors, though not perfect and infallible in ^I respects, were a religious,
brave, and virtuous set of men, whose love of liberty, civil and religious, brought
them from their native land into the American desert. Dr. Jonathan Mathew."
In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States, entitled ''An Act
for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books,
to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned :"
and also to an Act entitled ''An Act supplementary to an Act, entitled, An Act fV>r
the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books to
the authors and proprietors of such copies during me times tnerein mentioned ; and
extending the benents thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and etching histo-
rical and other prints.^^
JNO. W. DAVIS, Clerk of the District qf MassachusetU.
press of carter, ANDREWS, AND CO LANCASTER.
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PREFACE.
Thk following Register is desigaed as an introduction to a biographical and genea-
logical dictionary, which shall comprehend concise sketches of those individuals who
hare been known and distinguished in the annals of New-England. If the health of
the compiler should admit of the completion of such a work in the manner contem-
plated, it will contain biographical accounts of many persons here but slightly noticed,
aadaeoQtinaation of eminent persons from the cIo^jb of the seventeenth century to
the present time.
An arrangement of names like the following, in this age of antiquarian research and
iaoHLiry, seemed to be wanted. We are all curious to know something respecting
tboee who have preceded us on the stage of action ; and there has begun a curiosity
among many of the present generation to trace back their progenitors, in an uninter-
mpted series, to those who first landed on the bleak and inhospitable shores of New-
England, And it is not improbable that the arrival of the puritan fathers of New-
Eagland will form a more memorable epoch in history than the Conquest of England
does in that country, and that posterity, a few centuries hence, will experience as
mnch pleasure in tracing back their ancestry to the New-England colonists, as some
of the English feel in being able to deduce their descent from the Normans.
There is a satisfaction in recognizing our first ancestor from the European conti-
nent 5 in knowing from what part of Great-Britain he came 3 where he settled, and
the circumstances and condition of his family. Owing to the trials and hardshipfi en-
dared by the first settlers of New-England, the uncertainty of their remaining in the
GOimtry, and the little time afforded them for recording family data and genealogical
facts, there are but few families, who have full and complete satisfaction in each of
these particulars. But some facts, even at this late period, might be known of al-
most every individual who settled in any of the colonies, if suitable patience, research,
and industry were employed in collecting them. Our earliest records and memori-
als are full of information, and in regard to minuteness and accuracy will bear a com-
parison with those of modem date 3 and it is somewhat remarkable that so large a
portion of them have escaped the many perils to which fire and the aboriginal wars
exposed them. But many town records are in a decaying state, and those in whose
hands they are deposited are highly culpable that they do not use their efforts to have
them fairly and correctiy transcribed.
The following work is intended to contain the names of a large portion of the First
Settiers, of the most prominent, as well as the more humble 3 of those who had '' to
level forests, where savage beasts and savage men had roamed for ages, and to make
comfortable dwelling places amidst a wide and gloomy wilderness.'^ But no one can
reasonably expect it to contain the names of aU who early came to New-England.
To bring the names ofaU from their musty and moth-eaten concealment would be a
labonr beyond the power of a single individual. The object in the progress of the
uidertsking has been to give,
I. The names of the Magistrates, and Ministers of the Gospel, in all the New-
Eagiaod colonies from 1620 to 1692.
II. The Deputies or Representatives of the General Court, of the colony of Mas-
aachnsetts, from 1634 to the commencement of government un^r the new charter
ofiew.
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IV PREFACE.
III. The Grsduates of Harvard College, and'the Members of the Ancient and
Honoarable Artillery Company, from the date of those institutions until 1662.
IV. The Freeman admitted to the Massachusetts colony, in the colony records,
from 1630 to 1662.
V. The names of all such Emigrants, both freemen and non-freemen, as could be
collected, who had come over to the several colonies before 1643.
Besides those coming under these several heads, there have been given the names
of many others, especially those who were the first of the name and family in the
country, down to Philip's war in 1675. The four first objects (excepting a complete
list of the counsellors of Rhode-Island) have been principally attained, and some idea
of the deficiencies of the last may be had from a consideration of the number of per^
sons, who had come to New-England from the first arrival at Plymouth to the year
1643, to which period it was originally the aim of the compiler to limit his inquiries.
Former writers have differed in their statements of the number who had come ti>
this section of the country before 1640, when, according to Johnson, emigration " oniy
for enjoyment of exercising the ordinances of Christ, and enlargement of his king^
dom,'' ceased. But other causes operated to draw people from England, and it is
not unlikely that there continued to be accessions of new settlers for, at least, the
first half century from the beginning. Governour Hutchinson, in the preface to the
first volume of his history of Massachusetts, says, " In the first ten years, about twen-
ty thousand souls had arrived in Massachusetts.'' ** Since then," he observes, '^ it is
supposed more have gone from hence to England than have come from thence hither."
Dr. Cotton Mather, who wrote in 1697, says, '^ the number who did actually arrive at
New«-England before the year 1640, have been computed about four thousand/' which
we must charitably suppose to mean/amtZt<«, for before that period three fourths of that
number ofindimduaia had come over in a single year. He also says, that after 1640
far more went out of the country than came into it. But Johnson, who wrote in
1651, within eight years of the time to which he makes his computation, and who
had better means of knowing the truth than either Mather or Hutchinson, says, the
number ** for fifteen years space, to the year 1643, of men, women, and children,
passing over this wide ocean, as near as at present can be gathered, is supposed to
be 21,200, or thereabouts." This calculation of Johnson seems to embrace the whole
of New-England, from the time of Endecott's arrival at Salem, in 1628, to 1643,
while Hutchinson gives nearly the same number of emigrants to Massachusetts
alone, within two thirds of the period mentioned by Johnson. Allowing five persona
to have constituted a family, the number of male heads of families, if we regard John-
son's computation as correct, would exceed 4000, whose names should find a place
in a perfect register of the emigrants to New-England during the first twenty-three
years from the settlement at Plymouth. But, as many of the earliest settlers return-
ed to England, or removed to other places, their proportion to those who remained
can never be ascertained, and some deduction should therefore be made. Of the
most of those who left, nothing very satisfactory can be obtained ; and as they quit-
ted the country at a time when their aid and services were most needed, we feel less
solicitous to know their history, than of those who endured the heat and burden of
the day.
The assertion so often made, that more persons have gone from New-England to
England since 1640, than have come from thence hither, probably originated witfi
Mather, who misunderstood the language of Johnson, and was perpetuated by Hutch-
inson, and has been adopted by succeeding writers of reputation. A little reflection
may satisfy almopt any one that if the remark was true in 1651, only eight years after
the check given to emigration by the more favourable condition of the puritans in
England, a lapse of forty-six years would be likely to affect the truth of it in 1697,
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PITEFACE. V
and it would appear still further from the truth in 1760, when Ootttnotu Itutchiiison
wrote his history.
The first settlers of Plymouth colony were separatists from the Church of England.
Some of them had early embraced the sentiments of Robert Brown, but were re-
duced to milder principles under the tolerant and catholick Robinson. Those who
settled the colony of Massachusetts were Puritans, toho had not geeeded from the
egtabliahed church. They were of that class of Episcopalians who had long laboured
for reform in the ri'tes and ceremonies of the church, and had contended that these
should be regulated ** by the rules of Scripture, and that nothing should be maintain-
ed which did not rest on that authority .'' * They had been chiefly born and brought
up in the National Church, and had, until their emigration, lived in communion with
her. Their ministers had been ordained by her bishops, and had officiated in her
parochial churches, and had made no secession from her until they left their native
land.' They had long desired to establish churches in their worship, form, matter,
and discipline, after what they conceived to be the model of the New Testament.
They had long been persecuted by grievous impositions, by fines and imprisonments.
But it seems that they did not relinquish the principles of a National Church, and of
the power of the civil magistrate in matters of faith and worship. We know that in
exercising this power our fathers greatly erred, but they erred in common with others
of that age. The mild and forbearing principles of toleration were then hardly^
knovrn, and had seldom been practised.
On the character of the great body of the following list, the compiler has not time
nor ability to dwell. With a late writer, he believes that " the early colonists of
New-England were on the whole a highly respectable community. Many of them
were among the best specimens of what was then, and is now, the better class of so-
ciety in England — its well educated commonners — ^men superiour, perhaps, to any
of their successors in deep and extensive learning, and second to none for fervent
piety, for their integrity and disinterested patriotism. But that all the early settlers
of New-England were of this description is a supposition which, though it sometimes
seems to have been taken for granted, is manifestly absurd. There were some in
humble circumstances ; poor, but respectable ; and there were others needy adven-
turers, who depended on finding in a remote settlement the subsistence which they
were unwilling to procure by honest exertion in their native land.''
It is needless to observe to those acquainted with such labour, that much time
has been bestowed on the compilation. The colony records of Massachusetts and
Plymouth, the county records of Suffolk, Essex, Middlesex, and the ancient county
of Norfolk, (now extinct) the ancient records of New-Hampshire, and those of many
of the most amcient towns in Massachusetts and Plymouth have been partially exam-
ined 5 and a large number of books and pamphlets, from which information could be
gleaned, have been consulted. The compiler would not pretend that he has person-
ally examined all the records named. It has been principally through the aid afford-
ed by his friends and correspondents in the places where those publick records are
kept, that he has been able to avail himself of the facta they contain. To Mr. Fran-
cis Jackson, one of the representatives of Boston, he is particularly indebted, not
only for the list of freeman from 1630 to 1662, and the list of representatives or dep-
uties to the General Court of Massachusetts from 1634 to 1692, but for various other
information respecting the early families of Boston, and most of the towns in its im-
mediate vicinity. He is also under many obligations for the assistance afforded by
their communications, to Mr. Joshua Coffin, of Newbury, Mr. Alonzo Lewis, of
Lynn, Rev. Joskph B. Felt, of Hamilton, and Mr. Lemuel Shattuck, of Concord.
Had the plan of the work allowed, the authorities for the difibrent facts stated would
have been given, but restricted to such narrow limits, it would have been impossible
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to state that the names of the members of the Ancient and Honourable ArtUlery
Oompany are derived from the history of the company by Z. G» Whitman^ 0sq.y of
Boston.
The auAoifs cited, whose works kave been reprinted, ftre the following^ to wbicb
is added the edition which has been consulted :
BsLXir AP, History of New-HampshirO; 2d edit. 3 vols. Dovet, 1812.
CAtAJct^ Account of Ejected Ministers, &c.,2d edit. 2 vols. &vo. London, ni3«
Calef, More Wonders of the Inyisible World. Salem edit 12mo. 1823.
Chvrch, History of King Philip's War, (by S. Ik Drake) edit. ]2mo. 182>.
DuGDALE, Antiquities of Warwickshire, 2d edit. 2 vols, folio. London, 1730,
Holmes, American Annals, 2d edit. 2 vols. 8vo. Cambridge, 1829.
Hubbard, Narrative of Indian Wars, 1st edit. 4to. Boston, 1677.
Hutchinson, History of Massachusetts, 3d edit. 2 vols. 8vo Boston, 1796.
Johnson, History of New-England, 1st edit. 4to. London, 1654.
Lempriere, Universal Biography, (by E. Lord) 2 vols. 8vo. New- York, 182d.
Mather, Magnalia Christi Americana, 2d edit. 2 vols. 8vo. Hartford, 1820.
Morton, New-England's Memorial, (by John Davis) 5th edit. 8vo. Boston, 1826.
Neal, Hist, of the Puritans, (by Joshua Toulmin, D. D.) 5 vols. 8vo. Newbury-
port, wn.
Prince, Annals New-England, 1st edit. 2 vols. 12mo. Boston, 1736 and 1765,
Snow, History of Boston, 1st edit. 8vo. Boston, 1825.
Winthrop, History of New-England, (by James Savage) 2vol8. 8vo. Boston,
1825 and 1826.
Wood, History of the Towns on Long-Island, N. Y., revised edition, 8vo. Brook-
lyn, N. Y., 1828.
The other works from which information has been drawn will appear in the course
of the work.
^« addmonal explanaiiona tU the end qf the Appendix.
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ALPHABETICAL LISTS OF TOWNS,
SETTLSD BEfORX 1692 IH TBI fttVXRAL COLONIES Of MCW-SHGLAIID.
The towns in Massachusetts uid Plymouth Colonies, with those in Maine, are ar-
ransed in the skme list. Those i^ the two are Aistin^isfaed by P. for Plympoth and
M. for Maine. Excepting Faimoath, Saco, Scarborough, and Northfield, it is be-
lieved that the following were represented in the first General Court, assembled at
Boston, 8 June. 1692, under the province charter, irranted by Kins William and
Queen Mary, 7 Oct. 1691. " J "•
IN MASSACHUSETTS.
Amesbiiry
SETTLED.
tirCORF-
1668
Andover
1643
1648
Attlebofough, F
,
1694
Barnstable, P.
163d
1639
Beverly
1626
1668
Billerica
1653
1655
Boston
a. 1626
1630
Boxford
1685
Bradford
a. 164^
1675
Braintree
1630
1640
Bridgewater, P.
1651
1656
•Bristol, P.
Brookfield
1660
1673
Cambridge
1630
1630
Charlestown
1628
1629
Chelmsford
1653
1655
Concord
1635
1635
Dartmouth
1664
Dedham
1635
1636
Deerfield
a. 1668
1682
Dorchester
1630
1630
tDunstable
1673
Duxbury, P.
1637
1637
Eastham, P.
1644
1646
Falmouth, P.
1686
Falmouth,. M.
•
1718
Freetown, P.
1683
Gloucester
1639
1639
Grolon
a. 1655
1655
Hadley
1647
li561
Harwich
1694
* Now belonging to Rhode-Island,
t The greater portioit and the principal
■ettlement now in New-Hampshire.
t Sent two representatives in 1692.
SETTLXD.
INCOKP.
Hatfield
1670
Haverhill
1641
1645
Hingham
1633
1635
Hull
1641
1644
Ipswich
1633
1634
tlsles of Shoals, M.
Kittery, M.
1632
Lancaster
1643
1653
§LittleCompton
Lynn
, P. 1674
1682
1629
1630
Maiden
1048
1649
Manchester
1640
1645
Marblehead
1631
1649
Marlborough
llMartha'sVinei
1660
^ard
Marshfield, P.
a. 1640
1640
Medfield .
1651
Medford
1630
1690
Mendon
1667
1667
Middleborough,
P.
1660
Milton
1662
Monamoy, P.
1686
Nantucket
1659
1659
Newbury
1635
1635
Newton
1691
Northampton
1654
1654
Northfield
1673
1713
Plymouth, P.
1620
1620
Reading
1640
1644
Rehoboth, P.
1644
1645
Rochester, P.
1686
Rowley
1639
1639
$ Now belonging to the State of Rhode-
Ifllftud
1 Comprising Edgartown and
Tiabury,
both incorporated ii
11671.
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LISTS OF TOWNS SfiTTLED BEFORE 1692.
Roxbury
Saco, M»
Salem
Salisbury
Sandwich, P.
Scarborough,
Scituate, P.
Sherburne
Springfield
Stow
Sudbury
Swanzey, P.
Taunton, P.
Topsfield
Watertown
Wells, M.
Wenhara
Westfield
Weymouth
Woburn
Woodstock
Worcester
Wrentham
Yarmouth, P.
York, M.
SETTLBD.
1630
1635
1626
1639
M.
1633
1635
1638
1642
1630
1643
1639
1659
1624
1640
1685
1639
1630
IHCORP.
1639
1628
1640
1639
1636
1674
1645
1683
1639
1667
1639
1650
1630
1643
1669
1635
1642
•1686
1684
1673
1639
IN NEW-HAMPSHIRE.
Dover 1623 1633
Exeter 1638 1639
Hampton 1638 1638
Portsmouth 1623 fl653
IN CONNECTICUT 1690.
Bran ford
1644
Canterbury
1690 1703
Derby
a. 1660
Fairfield
1639
Farmington
1640
* Gr&nted this year by Massachusetts;
and called New-Rozbury. It now belongs
to Connecticut; although it paid taxes,
and sent representatives to the General
Court of Massachusetts until the year
1748.
t By Massachusetts. Until then it had
been known by the name of Strawberry-
Glastonbury
SETTt.1tI>.
mcoKP.
Guilford
1639
Greenwich
a. 1640
Haddam
1663
1668
Hartford
1635
Killingworth
1663
Lyme
a. 1636
1667
Middletown
1651
Miiford
1638
New-Haven
1638
New-London
1646
Norwalk
1651
Norwich
1660
Plainfield
1689
1699
Pomfret
1686
Preston
1686
Saybrook
1635
Simsbury
1671
South bury
1672
Stamford
1641
Stonington
1658
Stratford
1639
Wallingford
1669
Waterbury
1686
Weathersfield
1635
Windham
1686
1692
Windsor
1635
Woodbury
1674
IN RHODE-ISLAND 1690.^
East-Greenwich b. 1677
1677
Kingston
a. 1679
1674
Newport
1638
New-Shoreham
1672
Providence
1636
Portsmouth before 1663
Warwick
1643
Westerly
1665
Bank. It had exercised the privileges of
a distinct coirporation from its early set-
tlement.
t The towns of Bristol, Tiverton, and
Little-Compton were then settled, but
were considered as
belonging to
Maiw-
chusetts and Plymouth*
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GENEAIiOGICAIi REGISTER
OF THB
FIRST SETTLERS OF NEW-ENGLAND.
EXPLANATIONS.
Those having this mark § were Goveraours ; those with a \ were Deputy Govem-
ours ; with a X AssistantB ; with a * Representatives of the General Court of Massa-
chusetts ; with a II MembeKs of the Ancient and Honourable Artillery Company.
Ministers of the Uospelare in italick capitals. The year following the town denotes
the time when first residence (so far as has been ascertained) commenced. The
year when first elected Representative, or Assistant, is given, and, in most cases, the
whole term of service is mentioned. The abbreviations are ar. co. for member of the
Ancient and Honourable Artillery Company 5 H. C. for Harvard College j D. C. for
Dartmouth College 3 Y. C. for Yale College } b. for born 3 m. for married 3 d. for
died, &c.
ABBOT, ARTHUR, Marblehead, of which place he was an
early inhabitant. Rev. A. Abbot, DANIEL, admitted freeman 18
May, 1631, was of Cambridge in 1634. He was fined five shil-
lings for neglecting his watch in 1630. GEORGE, Rowley, d.
1647, leaving sons, George, of Andover ; Nehemiah, of Ipswich
and Rowley ; and Thomas, (who d, without issue) of Rowley. Rev.
A. Abbot. GEORGE, Andover, son of the preceding, was born a.
1630, freeman 1675, d. 22 March, 1689, leaving sons, 1. George,
b. 8 Feb. 1659, m. Elizabeth Ballard, and had 5 sons ; 2. John, b.
6 Sept. 1662, d. leaving no family ; 3. Nehemiah, b. 31 July, 1667,
resided in Andover, was a deacon of the church and representative,
d. 8 Oct. 1750 ; Samuel, b. 10 June, 1678 ; and 4 daughters. His
widow m. Henry Ingalls. Ibid. GEORGE, came, it is said, from
Yorkshire, England, and settled in Andover in 1647, was admitted
fi-eeman and d. 4 Jan. 1682, ae. 66, He m. Hannah Chandler in
1647, by whom (who d. June 1711, the widow of Rev. Francis
Dane) he had, 1. John, b. 13 March 1648, a deacon of the churchy
and who d. 30 March, 1721 ; 2. Joseph, who d. young ; 3. Joseph
2d, who was killed by the Indians, 8 April, 1676 ; [see Hubbard*s
Indian Wars, 83] 4. George, a captain, b. 18 June, 1655, d. 9
March, 1736 ; 5. William, born 29 Nov. 1657, d. 13 Nov. 1713 ;
6. Benjamin, b. 31 Dec. 1662, d. at Andover, 10 April, 1703 ; [see
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ABBOT ADAMS.
Calefs More Wonders] 7. Timothy, b. 28 Nov. 1663, d. 20 Sept.
1730; 8. Thomas, b. 17 May, 1666, d. 9 May, 1728 ; 9. Edward ;
10. Nathaniel, b. 15 July, 1671, d. 12 Dec. 1749, the ancestor of
one branch of the Abbot families in Concord, N. H. ; 11. Hannah ;
12. Sarah ; 13. Elizabeth. Descendants are very numerous. Thirty-
one persons of the name of Abbot had grad. at the N. E. Colleges
in 1828, all of whom descended from the preceding, excepting those
of the name who grad. at H. C. in 1720, 1764, 1787, and 1826.
Ibid. JOSEPH, New-Haven 1683, had a son who settled at Wal-
lingford^ Conn, one of whose two sons settled in Ridgefield, Conn,
and was father of Hon. Joel Abbot, M. C. from Georgia. Ibid.
NEHEMIAH, freeman 1669, was son of George Abbot, of Row-
ley, and resided in Ipswich, and was probably the deacon of Tops-
field, chosen 24 May, 1686. Rev. J. B. Felt. ROBERT, Water-
town, whose name is Ahhitt in the colony records, was admitted
freeman in 1634. THOMAS, Andover, a. 1663, had sons, Tho-
mas, Joseph, Nathaniel, and John. WALTER, a vintner of New-
Hampshire in 1640.
ABELL, ROBERT, Weymouth, freeman 1631, had a son Abra-
ham, buried Nov. 1639. Elijah and James Abell grad. at Y. C.
1760 and 1819.
ABINGTON, WILLIAM, Maine 1642. Coffin.
ACRES, JOHN, Boston 1656.
ADAMS, IIALEXANDER, Boston, freeman 1648, member of
the ar. co. 1652, m. Mary, sister of Tristram Coffin, and had sons,,
John, b. 1652 ; Samuel, b. 1656, and probably others. CHARLES,
Dover 1665, Oyster-River, now Durham, 1669, was a grand-jury-
man 1688. CHRISTOPHER, was a petitioner, with Henry Adam*
sen. and jr., Thomas and Samuel Adams, for land in Massachusetts,
in 1644. Coffin. •EDWARD, Medfield, son of Henry Adams,
senior, was admitted freeman in 1654, and was probably the repre*
sentative at two sessions of the court in May, 1689. His wife was
Lydia, and his children were, .Jonathan, b. 4 April, 1655; Eliashib,
b. 1658 ; James, b. 4 Jan. 1662 ; Elizabeth, who d. 1661 ; Elisha,
and perhaps others. FERDINANDO, Dedham, freeman 1640, had
permission to go to England in 1641 ; [Worthington, Hist. Dedham^
103] but if he went thither at that time, he probably returned, a»
his son Nathaniel was b. 16 March, 1643. HENRY, Braintree,
came from Devonshire, England, it is said by Alden and others,
in 1630, but probably not so early ; settled at Braintree, where he
d. 8 Oct. 1646, leaving sons, Henry, Samuel, Thomas, Peter, Jo-
seph, Edward, and two others. To his memory is erected in Quin-
cy, by his illustrious descendant, John Adams, a monument with an
inscription, from which the following is extracted : "In memory of
Henry Adams, who took his flight from the Dragon persecution, in
Devonshire, England, and alighted with eight sons near Mount Wol-
laston. One of the sons returned to England, and, afler taking some
time to explore the country, four removed to Medfield and the
neighbouring towns ; two to Chelmsford, One only, Joseph, who
lies here at his left hand, remained here, who was an original [?] pro-
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prietor in the township of Braintree, incorporated in 1639." ||*HEN-
RY, son of the preceding, was of Braintree in 1640, but removed
to Medfield as early as 1649, where he was town clerk, and re^
resentative in 1659, 1665, 1674, and 1675. He was also a lieu-
tenant, and perhaps the same mentioned by Increase Mather, in his
Hist, of Philip's war, as being killed at his own door by the Indians,
21 Feb. 1676, whose wife was soon after accidentally killed by an
Englishman. He m. Elizabeth Paine, 17 Nov. 1643, and his chil-
dren were, Eleazar, b. 5 August, 1644 ; Jasper, b. 23 June, 1647 ;
both at Braintree; Elizabeth, b. 11 Nov. 1649; John, b. 14 July,
1652 ; Moses, b. 26 Oct. 1654 ; Henry, b. 19 Nov. 1657, and Sam-
nel, b. 10 Dec. 1661, the last five at Medfield. JEREMY, Cam-
bridge 1632, [1 Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. vii. 10 J may have accom-
panied the first emigrants to Connecticut. JOHN, Plymouth 1621,
came o\er in the ship Fortune in 1621, d. in 1633. James Adams,
his son, m. Frances, daughter of William Vassall, and d. at sea in
1651, on board the James, of London, leaving a son William, born
at Scituate, 13 March, 1648, and other children. JOHN, Cam-
bridge, whose wife was Anne, had children, Rebecca, born in Eng-
land ; Mary ; John, b. 1 May, 1653 ; Joseph; Hannah; Daniel, 1662.
There was a John Adams of Concord, in 1650, and of Chelmsford
in 1654 [Shattuck] who is supposed to have been one of the 8 sons
of Henry Adams. JOSEPH, son of Henry Adams, was b. in Eng-
land in 1626, settled in Braintree, (now Quincy) and was admitted
freeman in 1653, d. 6 Dec. 1696, ». 68. He m. Abigail Baxter,
[Alden erroneously says Mary] 26 Nov. 1650, by whom, who d. 27
Aug. 1692, ffi. 58, he had, 1. Henry, [?] b. 13 Nov. 1652; 2. Joseph,
b. 24 Dec. 1654; 3. John, who d. Feb. 1657 ; 4 and 5. John and
Bethia, (twins) b. 8 Dec, 1661 ; 6. Samuel, b. Sept. 1665 ; 7. Pe-
ter, b. 7 Feb. 1670 ; 8. Jonathan, b. 31 Jan. 1671 ; 9. Deliverance ;
10. Mary. Joseph, the 2d child, m. Hannah, daughter of John Bass,
and d. 12 Feb. 1737, 8B. 82, leaving several children, of whom
John, b. 8 Feb. 1692, was a deacon of the church of Braintree, and
d. 25 May, 1761, ae. 69, the father of the patriot of the revolution,
and second president of the U. S., and Joseph, b. 1 Jan. 1689 or
1090, grad. at H. C. 1710 ; was the minister of Newington, N. H.
frona 16 Nov. 1715 to his death, 26 May, 1783. This family still
retains the paternal seat at Quincy. It has been rendered illustrious,
by having furnished two presidents of our country, who, with their
distant relative. Gov. Samuel Adams, will ever be remembered by
the friends of our civil and political institutions. NATHANIEL,
Weymouth 1642, had a son Abraham, b. 16 Jan. 1643. NATHAN-
IEL, Boston, freeman 1647, had a wife Mary, and children, Nathan-
iel, b. 10 Sept. 1653 ; David, b. 30 June, 1659 ; Joseph, b. 19 Dec.
1661 ; Benjamin, b. 10 Dec. 1665, and daughters, Mary, Sarah,
and Elizabeth. A Nathaniel Adams d. at Boston, 30 March, 1690.
PETER, Medfield, freeman 1650, son of Henry Adams, had children
by Rachel his wife, Hannah, b. 1658 ; Jonathan, b. 1663 ; Jona-
than, 2d b. 15 May, 1664, and others. PHILIP, Massachusetts,
was admitted freeman in 1652. *RICHARD, Weymouth, free-
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man 1635, representative at two sessions, Nov. 1637 and March,
1638, had a son Samuel, b. 6 June, 1639, and daughters Sarah and
Ruth. RICHARD, Salem 1637, may have d. at Maiden, 6 Oct.
1674. ROBERT, was b. in 1601, and came from Holderness, i^
Yorkshire, or as others say from some place in Devonshire, and
settled at Newbury before 1649, where he d. 12 Oct. 1681. He
was a tailor by occupation. Coffin. SAMUEL, one of the 8 sons
of Henry Adams, was admitted freeman 1643, was of Charlestown,
where his son Samuel was b. 3 July, 1647 ; removed to Chelmsford,
where he was a captain and d. 24 Jan. 1688, over 70 years. He
or his son Samuel m. Hester Sparhawk, 7 May, 1668. •THO-
MAS, brother of the preceding, was of Braintree in 1642, where his
daughter Mary was b. 24 July, 1643 ; removed to Concord, and
had sons, Jonathan and Pelatiah, (twins) b. 1646; Timothy, b.
1648 ; George, b. 1650 ; removed to Chelmsford, where he was the
first town clerk, and representative at the second session in 1673,
and d. 20 July, 1688, «. 76. WILLIAM, Cambridge, 1635, free-
man 1639, may have removed to Ipswich, where was a William
Adams, who d. in 1661, and who was probably father of William
Adams, jr. who d. in Jan. 1659. The senior lefl a son Nathaniel.
Samuel Adams was of Ipswich in 1665. WILLI AM y the first
graduate at H. C. of the name of Adams, was the second minister
of Dedham ; grad. 1671, was ordained 3 Dec. 1673, d. 17 August,
1685. Worthington, Hist. Dedham, 104.
ADDINGTON, ISAAC, Boston was admitted freeman 1650.
Whitman gives the name of Israel Addington, member of the ar. co.
in 1652. {*ISAAC, Boston, son of the preceding, was b. in Bos-
ton, 22 Jan. 1645, admitted freeman 1673, was representative and
speaker of the house, 1685, assistant 1686, and many years secreta-
ry of the province under the new charter. He d. 19 March, 1715,
ae. 70, and his funeral was attended by 20 of the counsellors of the
province.
AGAR, WILLIAM. (See Auger.)
AINSWORTH, DANIEL, Roxbury, d. 13 Nov. 1680.
ALBEE, BENJAMIN, Braintree 1641, freeman 1642, was of
Medfield in 1653, where his son Benjamin was b. that year. He had
daughters born in 1641 and 1642. Whitney [Hist. Quincy] spells
this name Alher. JOHN, Salem 1637, freeman 1643. d. in 1690.
A John Albee was of Braintree in 1640, whose servant Francis
Brown d. that year.
ALBOROW, {JOHN, Rhode-Island, was one of Sir Edmund
Andros* council 1687. Hutchinson, i. Hist. Mass. 317.
ALCOCK, *GEORGE, Roxbury, freeman 1631, was a deacon
of thechurch, and a representative at the first general court, 14 May,
1634. He d. 30 Dec. 1640. JOHN, son of Deacon George Al-
cock, grad. at H. C. 1646, lived in Roxbury, and is believed to
have been a physician. His son George was born 25 March, 1655,
graduated at H. C. 1673, and died before 1699. JOHN and SAM-
UEL, were of Kittery, and admitted freemen in 1652. SAMUEL,
grad. at Harvard College in 1659, was admitted freeman 1676, and
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cL before 1698. THOMAS, Boston, freeman 1631, d. 14 Sept.
1657. His son John was b. 2 July, 1651. THOMAS, Dedham,
freeman 1635, had 4 daughters b. between 1638 and 1644.
ALGOT, JOHN, is named by Douglas as one of the first coun-
cil> under the charter of William and Mary 1692.
ALDEN, JDAVID, Duxbury, son of the following, was a repre-
sentative several years ; an assbtant of Plymouth colony in 1690 ;
had sons„ Benjamin and Samuel, and one daughter Alice, the wife
of Judah Paddock, of Yarmouth. {JOHN, one of the first pilgrims
oi Plymouth 1620, and one of the first settlers of Duxbury 1640,
was representative 1641 to 1649 ; an assistant of Plymouth colony
from 1633 to 1639, excepting 1637„ and from 1651 to 1686, ex-
cepting 1653,, in all, 42 years. He m. Priscilla, daughter of Wil-
liam MuUins, and his children were, 1. John ; (see next article) 2.
Joseph of Duxbury, who d. 8 Feb. 1697, aged a. 73, leaving Isaac,
Joseph, and John y 3. David, above named ;. 4. Jonathan, of Dux-
bury, who d. Feb. 1697, ae. about 70, leaving Andrew, Jonathan,
John,, and Benjamin ; 5. Elizabeth, who m. William Paybody, of
little-Compton ; 6. Sarah, who m. Alexander Standish ; 7. Ruth,
who m. John Bass, of Braintree ; 8. Mary, who m. Thomas Delano.
John Alden d. 12 Sept. 1687, aged a. 89. An elegy on his death
is in the iii. vol. of Alden's Collection of Epitaphs, 271 — 274.
JOHN^ son of the preceding, went from Duxbury to Boston as early
as 1659, and d. 14 March, 1702. His children were, John, b.
1663; WiUiam, b. 1664 ; William, 2d, b. 5 March, 1666; Nathan-
iel; Zechariah,b. 18Feb. 1673,grad.atH.C.1692; Anna; Eliza-
beth. He is named in ii. Hutchinson ; iii. Alden ; in Hubbard ;
and in Calef
ALDERMAN, JOHN, Salem 1637, freeman 1639, was admit-
ted to the church 17 Feb. 1637, d. 1657. One Alderman of Bear-
Cove is mentioned by Winthrop under 1634.
ALDIS, NATHAN, Dedham, freeman 1640, was deacon of the
church, and d. 15 March, 1676.
ALDRIDGE, HENRY, Dedham 1644, freeman 1645, d. 23 Feb.
1646. His son Samuel was b. 10 March, 1644. GEORGE, Dor-
chester, freeman 1636, removed to Braintree, and had born there,
sons, John, 2 April, 1644 ; Peter, 14 April, 1648 ; Jacob, 28 Feb.
1653 ; Mattithijah, 10 June, 1656, and several daughters.
ALEWORTH, FRANCIS, freeman 1631, was chosen lieuten-
ant at a court of assistants, [Prince, ii. Annals, 32] but returned to
England in March, 1632. ROBERT, Pemaquid 1631.
ALEXANDER, GEORGE, was one of the first proprietors of
Northampton 1653. Nathaniel Alexander d. at Hadley, 29 Oct.
1742, ae. 90 1-2 years.
ALFORD, WILLIAM, Salem 1657, and perhaps as early aa
1637. Felt, Annals Salem, iii. WILLIAM, Boston, had a son
John b. 1658.
ALLEN, ANDREW, Lynn 1642, m. Faith Ingalls, and went to
Andover. Sixty-five persons of the name of Allen had grad. at the
N. E. Colleges in 1825, of whom 17 have been clergymen. ||*BO-
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ALLEN.
ZOUN, came from Lynn, England, and settled at Hingham as
early as 1638, was a representative 1643, 8 years, and member of
the ar. co. 1650. Lincoln says he was ''often a deputy, a military
officer, and an influential citizen of Hingham." He removed to
Boston, and there d. 14 Sept. 1652. His widow m. Joseph Jewett,
of Rowley, 13 May, 1653. Bozoun Allen, his son, was representa-
tive of Boston a number of years. EDWARD, Ipswich, came from
Scotland to N. E. in 1636, m. a Kimball, and had 15 sons and 3
daughters [MS. letter of Hon. Joseph C. Allen.] Hubbard men-
tions the burning of his barn by lightning, in 1670. Hist. N. E.
628. GEORGE, Weymouth 1641, was admitted freeman in 1645.
A George Allen of Lynn 1636, is supposed to have removed to Sand-
wich. HENRY, a joiner of Boston, was admitted to the church
in 1645, freeman 1648, was probably the deacon who d. at Boston,
6 Jan. 1696. Henry Allen was representative for Rowley in 1674.
JAMES, minister of the first church in Boston, was A. M. at
New College, Oxford, and one of the ejected ministers. He came
to N. E. in 1662, admitted freeman 1665; was installed 9 Dec.
1668, d. 22 Sept. 1710, as. 78. John Dunton, in- his journal, says
a son of Mr. Allen was a minister in England, and d. in North-
ampton. James Allen, perhaps another son, grad. at H. C. 1687.
James Allen, grandson of Rev. James, of Boston, grad. at H. C.
1717, was a preacher, and d. 8 Jan. 1755, in his 58th year. Allen,
Biog. Diet. 2 Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. ii. 101. Winthrop, MS. Cat-
aJogue. JAMES, Dedham 1639, Medfield 1652, freeman, 1647,
had children, John, b. 4 Dec. 1639 ; Sarah, b. 1644 ; Joseph, 24
June, 1652. JOHN, Scituate 1633. ||*JOHN, Charlestown,
freeman 1640, member of the ar. co. 1639 ; captain ; representa-
tive 1668, had a son John, b. 16 Oct. 1640. JOHN, Newbury,
had SOBS, John, b. 1656 ; Samuel, b. 1658. f JOHN, was a magis-
trate of New-Haven colony 1662 ; of Connecticut 1665 ; was one
of Sir Edmund Andros' council in 1687. t*MATTHEW, Cam-
bridge 1632, freeman 1635, representative 1636. He probably re-
moved to Connecticut, where one of this name was magistrate or as-
sistant in 1658 and 1665, and in various other offices. Mather
spells the name Allyn, but Trumbull writes the name of both Mat-
thew and John, AlUn. ROBERT, Salem 1637, was received as a
member the church, 15 May, 1642. A Robert Allyn was of New-
London in 1648. SAMUEL, Braintree, freeman 1635, had a daugh-
ter, b. in March, 1639. SAMUEL, Northampton, a. 1666, freeman
1683, d. about the year 1722. [MS. letter of Pres. Allen] His
son, deacon Samuel Allen, b. 1688, d, 1739, was the ancestor of
Rev. Thomas Allen, H. C. 1762, minister of Pittsfield, Ms. who was
b. 17 Jan. 1743, d. 11 Feb. 1810, ». 67, leaving several sons, of
whom is William Allen, D. D., president of Bowdoin College.
SAMUEL, Bridgewater, m. a daughter of George Partridge, and
has a great number of descendants. THOMAS, minister of
Charlestown, came to N. E. in 1638, was admitted a member of
Boston church, 27 Jan. 1639, and the same year settled at Charles-
town. He returned to England, and d. 21 Sept. 1673, ae. 65. Al-
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ALLEN. AMBLER.
len, Biog. Diet. TIMOTHY, Marblehead 1^8. WALTER,
Newbury 1640, perhaps the one who d. at Charlestown, 8 July,
1681. His son Benjamin was b. 1647. WILLIAM, Salem 1627,
was born a. 1602, came to N. £. in 1626, and was living in 1664.
He had sons, Samuel, b. 8 Jan. 1631 ; Onesiphorus, b. 6 June
1642 ; and several daughters b. between 1630 and 1640. His wife
d. in March, 1632, and he m. again. One of this name was one
of the first proprietors of Newbury.
ALLERTON, JISAAC, one of the first pilgrims at Plymouth
1620, was an assistant in 1621, lost his wife, 21 Feb. 1621. Hutch-
inson says the male posterity of this pilgrim settled in Maryland.
There appears to have been an Isaac AUerton in Marblehead, in
1648, [Dana] and one in New-Haven in 1650. [Dodd.] Isaac
Allerton, the graduate at H. C. in 1650, was probably son of the
assistant, or of John Allerton, who was at Plymouth in 1620. 2
Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. x. Index. Davis, Morton's Memo.
ALLEY, HUGH, Lynn 1650, had a son Hugh. Lewis. JOHN,
Lynn 1650, had sons John and Hugh. Ibid.
ALLIN, JOHN, the first minister of Dedham, came to N. E.
and was admitted freeman 1638, was ordained 24 April, 1639, and
d. 26 August, 1675, as. 75. A son John is recorded as being b. 4
Dec. 1639. Allen, Biog. Diet. Worthington, Hist. Dedham.
47—49. JOHN, was in the second class of graduates, 1643, went
to England, and was minister of Great- Yarmouth, in Norfolk, and
d. of the plague in 1665.
ALLING, JAMESy the third ministerof Salisbury, grad. at
H. C. 1679, succeeded Rev. John Wheelright, and d. 3 March,.
1696, SB. 37. A Francis Ailing d. at Roxbury, 1 Dec. 1692; and a
Samuel Ailing was of Conn, in 1675, where the name still exists.
ALLIS, WILLIAM, a deacon of the church in Braintree, was:
admitted freeman 1640, and d. 12 Oct. 1653. His sons were, John,,
b. 5 March, 1642 ; Samuel b. 24 Feb. 1647 ; Josiah, b. 20 Oct.
1651 ; William b. 10 Jan. 165-. Rev. Samuel Allis^ H. C. 1724, of
Somerset, Conn, was probably of this family.
ALLISON, JAMES, Boston 1644, had a son James, b. in 1650.
ALLISTRE, PAUL, Boston 1650.
ALLYNE, *EDWARD, Watertown, thence to Dedham, was ad-
mitted freeman in 1638, was one of the founders of the church, 8
Nov. 1638, representative 1639—1642, 4 years, d. at Boston, 8
Sept. 1642. He wrote his name as above. Worthington, Hist.
Dedham, 47. 101. WILLIAM, Massachusetts, was admitted free*
man in 1642.
ALMY, WILLIAM, Lynn 1636, Sandwich 1637. Lewis.
ALVORD, ALEXANDER, settled at Northampton as early as
1659. Six of this name had received the honours of the N. E. col-
leges in 1828.
AMADOWN, ROGER, Salem 1637, Weymouth 1640, Boston
1643.
AMBLER, RICHARD, Watertown, 1639, had a son Abraham
b. inl642.
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AMBROSE. ANDREWS.
AMBROSE, HENRY, freeman 1642, appears to have been an
early proprietor of Hampton, but was of Boston in 1654, and was
living in 1679. His wife was Susanna. A daughter Abigail was
b. in 1654. JOSHUA, grad. at H. C. 1653, went to England, and
was admitted to the degree of A: M. at Oxford, He settled, accord*
ing to Calamy, at Darby, in Lancashire, from whence he was eject-
ed, Calamy, i4. Account, 419. From Mather^s catalogue, it ap-
pears that he was living in 1697. NEHEMIAH, grad. 1653 at
H. C, of which he was a fellow. He went to England, and was
settled at Kirkby, in Lancashire, from whence he was ejected afler
the restoration. Calamy.
AMEREDITH, JOHN, was an inhabitant of Kittery in 168a
AMES, JOHN, son of Richard Ames, of Bruton, in Somerset-
shire, came to N. E. and settled at Bridgewater, and died leaving
no children. WILLIAM, Braintree, 1641, brother of the pre-
<5eding, was admitted freeman 1647, unless the following was the
freeman, and d. 11 March, 1654. His son John, b. 24 May, 1647,
settled in Bridgewater, and had 5 sons, John, Nathaniel, Thomas,
William, and David. Nathaniel, who was b. 1677, and tiled in
1736, was father of Dr. Nathaniel Ames, long known by the repu-
tation of his almanacks, which were published 40 years successively.
Dr. Ames was b. in 1708, and d. in 1765, leaving several sons lib-
erally educated, of whom the distinguished orator, Fisher Ames,
LL. D., was one, several of whose sons have grad. at H. C. . Those
who have given notices of this eminent statesman [Pres. Kirkland,
in his elegant sketch of his life and character, and Dr. Holmes, ii.
Annals, 440] mistake in deducing his descent from the author of
the Medulla Theologiae. WILLIAM, son of Rev. William Ames,
D. D. professor of the university of Francker, in Holland, who d.
in Nov. 1633, as. 57, grad. at H. C. 1645, went to England, and
was the minister of Wrentham, where he d. in 1689, ae. 66. His
mother, Joane Ames, came to N. E., lived sometime in Salem, and
d. at Cambridge, 23 Dec. 1644.
AMSDEN, ISAAC, Cambridge, d. 7 April, 1659. He had a
son Jacob, b. in 1657.
ANDERSON, GAWEN, Massachusetts, was admitted freeman
in 1640. There was a John Anderson of Boston in 1647, and one
of the same name at Ipswich in 1665.
ANDREW, SAMUEL, Cambridge 1654, was son of Mr. Wil-
liam Andrew, [Cambridge Chh. records] and by Elizabeth, his wife^
had sons, Samuel, b. 1656 ; William, b. June, 1658 ; John, b. 2
March, 1652 ; Thomas, b. 1665 ; Thomas, 2d, b. 1668. SAMU-
EL, minister of Milford, Conn, was son of the preceding, and was
b. 29 Jan. 1656, grad. at H. C. 1675, was ord. 18 Nov. 1685, and
d. 24 Jan. 1738, ae. 82. WILLIAM, a schoolmaster of Ipswich
and other places, d. 19 July, 1683.
ANDREWS, *DANIEL, was a representative of Salem-Village
in 1689, JOHN, Ipswich, probably the freeman of 1642, had a son
John of Ipswich in 1642 and 1687. [See Revolution in N. E. jus-
tified, 14.] There was a John Andrews, of Lynn in 1650, who d.
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in 1662, and a John Andrews, of Boston, had sons, John b. 21
Nov. 1656 ; James b. 1 Dec. 1664, and Edmund, b. 1665. *JO-
SEPH, Hingham 1635, freeman 1636, was the first town clerk, and
representative 3 years from 1636 to 1638. Lincoln, Hist. N. E.
42, 163. RICHARD, Ipswich, died a. 1644, leaving a son John.
ROBERT, Ipswich, was admitted freeman in 1635. SAMUEL,
Cambridge. (See Andrew.) THOMAS, Hingham 1635, and
perlM^s the representative in 1678. There was a Captain Thomas
Andrews, of Hingham, whose son Jedediah was b. 7 July, 1674,
grad. at H. C. 1695, and was minister in Philadelphia. Lincoln,
Hist. Hingham, 116. THOMAS, of Cambridge 1646, and a pro-
prietor of Watertown, had a daughter Rebecca, b. 18 April, 1646.
WILLIAM, Lynn 1634. There were three of the name of Wil-
liam Andrews, who were admitted freemen in 1634, 1635, and
1640, one of whom was of Cambridge in 1635 ; the preceding of
Lynn in 1634, and the other may have been the schoolmaster, Wil<*
liam Andrew, or William Andrews, of New-Haven in 1639.
ANDROS, §EDMUND, Boston, was appointed, by James II,
governour for the whole of N. E. and arrived at Boston, 20 Dec.
16S6, and remained in office, exercising an oppressive and tyrannical
sway over the people, until 18 April, 1689, when he was seized by
the inhabitants around Boston, and confined ; and the next year was
sent to England for trial. He escaped publick censure, and was
appointed governour of Virginia in 1692. He is said to have d. in
London, 24 Feb. 1714.
ANGIER, *ARTHUR, was representative of Scarborough in
1671 and 1672. A Lieutenant Andrew Angier, of Scarborough, is
mentioned by Hubbard, Hist. N. E. 600. EDMUND, Cambridge
1636, freeman 1640, m. Ruth, daughter of Rev. William Ames,
D. D., and had children, Ruth, Ephraim, Samuel, (see following
article) and John, b. 21 June, 1656. His wife d. 3 July, 1656, and
he m. Ann Pratt, 12 Jane, 1657, and had Edmund, b. 20 Sept
1659; Hannah, b. 1660; Mary, b. 1663; John, b. May, 1664;
Nathaniel, b. May, 1665 ; and Elizabeth. JOHN, graduated at H. C.
in 1653. SAMSON, Kittery, was admitted freeman in 1652.
SAMUEL, minister of Rehoboth and Waltham, was son of Ed-
mund Angier, and was b. at Cambridge, 17 March, 1655, grad. at
H. C. 1673, was ord. at Rehoboth, 15 Oct. 1679, from whence he
was dismissed ; was installed at Waltham, 25 May, 1697, d. 24 Jan.
1719, ae. 65. Two of his sons were Ames, b. at Rehoboth, 29
June, 1681, grad. at H. C. 1701, and John, H. C. 1720, the minis-
ter of East-Bridgewater, who d. 14 April, 1787, re. 86. Samuel and
Oakes Angier, who grad. at H. C. 176i3 and 1764, were sons of
Rev. John Angier.
ANN ABLE, ANTHONY, came to Plymouth in 1621, in the
ship Fortune, was one of the first settlers of Scituate 1633, removed
to Barnstable, and d. 167B. 2 Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. x. Index.
JOHN, Ipswich, 1648, d. 8 Oct. 1664. [Coffin.] John Annable
H. C. 1744, was a native of Ipswich, became a preacher and d. 18
April, 1762, e. 4L
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APPLEGATE. APPLETON.
APPLEGATE, THOMAS,Weymouth 1641. Coffin.
APPLETON, *SAMUEL, a descendant of John Appleton, wha
d. at Great- Waldingfield, in Suffolk, England, in 1436, was b. at
Little-Waldingfield in 1586, came to N. E. in 1635, and settled at
Ipswich. He was admitted freeman in May, 1636, and was repre-
sentative at the May and Sept. sessions of the general court in 1637.
He d. in June, 1670, leaving John, Samuel, (see next articles) Sa-
rah, who m. Rev. Samuel Phillips ; Judith, who m. Samuel, son of
Rev. N. Rogers ; and Martha, who m. Richard Jacob. Eight of
his descendants of the family name had grad. at H. C. in 1828, be-
sides 6 at Dartmouth and Bowdoin. *JOHN, Ipswich, son of the
preceding, was b. at Little- WaldingHeld, in 1622. He was elected
representative 19 years between 1656 and 1679, and was a captain
at Ipswich. He was fined and imprisoned under the administration
of Sir Edmund Andros, for resisting the principle of taxation with-
out representation — probably one of the first instances in the annals
of N. England. He d. in 1700, ae. 78. He m. Priscilla, daughter
of Rev. Jesse Glover, by whom he had two sons, John, b. 1652, and
Jesse, or Jose, b. 1660, a merchant in Boston, whod. 1721, ccelebs.
John, a counsellor under the charter of William and Mary, and 20
years judge of probate for Essex, m. Elizabeth, daughter of Presi-
dent Rogers, and d. in 1739, leaving Nathaniel, b. 9 Dec. 1693 ;
Daniel, the register of probate in Essex ; and 3 daughters. Na-
thaniel grad. at H. C. 1712, was ordained at Cambridge, 9 Oct.
1717, and d. 9 Feb. 1784, ae. 91, having had educated at H. C.
Nathaniel, A. A. S. in 1749, a loan officer, who d. 1798 ; John,
1757, a merchant of Salem, who d. March, 1817, ae. 62, and Henry,
1755, a merchant of Portsmouth, who d. 5 Sept. 1768, sb. 31. Na-
thaniel W., H. C. 1773, was son of Nathaniel, A. A. S., and d. 16
April, 1795, ae. 40. {♦SAMUEL, Ipswich, brother of the preced-
ing, was b. at Little-WaldingHeld, in 1625, was representative in
1669, 1675, 1677, and 1680, captain of the militia ; a major, and
the commander in chief in Philip's war 1676. He was elected assist-
ant from 1681 to 1686, six years, and was one of the first council un-
der the charter of William and Mary 1692, d. 15 May, 1696, bb. 70.
He m. (1) Hannah, daughter of William Paine, and had issue ; (2)
Mary, daughter of John Oliver, 2 Dec. 1656. She was b. 7 June,
1640. [Newbury records.] By both he had sons, 1. Samuel, b.
1654, a merchant of Boston, one of the council most of the time
from 1703 to 1714, a colonel and commissioner at Quebec ; 2.
John, who leh issue ; 3. Isaac, a major, b. 1664, m. Priscilla Baker,
a grand-daughter of Dep. Gov. Symonds, and d. 1747 ; 4. Oliver,
of Haverhill, who lefl issue ; and 3 daughters. Isaac had 6 daugh-
ters, and one son, Isaac, who was b. 1704, and d. at Ipswich 1794,
having had sons, 1. Isaac, of New-Ipswich, b. 1731, d. 1806, the
father of Samuel, Nathan, and Ebenezer Appleton, distinguished
merchants of Boston ; 2. Francis, of New-Ipswich, the father of
Rev. Jesse Appleton, D. D., president of Bowdoin College, b. 17
Nov. 1772, grad. at D. C. 1792, and d. at Brunswick, 12 Nov. 1819;
3. Samuel ; 4. Thomas ; 5. John ; 6. Daniel ; 7. William ; 8. Jo-
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seph, Brown Univ. 1772, the minister of North-Brookfield, Ms., ord.
30 Nov. 1776, d. 24 July, 1795. The 4, 5, and 6, setUed in Maine ;
William d. young in Portsmouth.
ARCHER, HENRY, Ipswich 1641. Six of this name had grad.
at New-Jersey and the N. E. Colleges in 182S. SAMUEL, a car-
penter, who requested freedom 1630, lived in Salem, and d. in 1667,
aged a. 60. Hubbard, [Indian Wars] mentions a Layton Archer,
and his son of Rhode-Island, who were killed by the Indians, 26
June, 1675.
ARMITAGE, GODFREY, Lynn 1634, Boston, freeman 1638,
had sons, Samuel, b. 7 Oct. 1645 ; Samuel, 2d, b. 1661. JOSEPH,
Lynn 1637, d. 27 June, 1680, ae. 80. Lewis. MANASSEH,
grad. at H. C. 1660, and d. before 1698. Mather, ii. Magnalia, 24.
THOMAS, Lynn 1636, removed to Sandwich 1637. Lewis.
ARMSTRONG, GREGORY, Plymouth, died in 1660. 2 Coll.
Mass. Hist. Soc. iii. 184, 186.
ARNOLD, BENEDICT, Providence 1639, wis president of
Rhode-Island in 1663, and cont^ued in office 8 years. He d. in
1678. EDWARD, Boston, d. 8 August, 1667. Son Barachiah, b.
in 1653. IJJOHN, Cambridge, freeman 1635, member of the ar.
CO. 1644, was probably the same who owned an estate in Boston.
JOSEPH, Braintree 1668, had sons born there. RICHARD,
Rhode-Island, was one of Sir Edmund Andros' council 1687.
Hutchinson, i. Hist. Mass. 317. SAMUEL, the first minister of
Rochester, Mass. was ordained in 1684, and d. before 1717. 2.
Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. iv. 269, 262. THOMAS, Watertown, free-
man 1640, had sons, Ichabod, b. 1640, Richard, b. 1642. WIL-
LIAM, Hingham, 1636, perhaps one of the founders of the first
Baptist Church in Rhode-Island.
ASHBY, ANTHONY, Salem 1665. 2 Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc.
viii. 106.
ASHLEY, ROBERT, Springfield 1639. David Ashley, perhaps
a son, was one of the settlers of Westfield, Ms., as early as 1666,
and is the ancestor of several distinguished men. Emerson Davis,
Hist. Westfield.
ASLETT, JOHN, Newbury, m. Rebecca Ayer in 1648.
ASPINWALL, PETER, Muddy River [Brookline, Ms.] 1663,
came from Lancashire, England' and is the ancestor of the respect-
able family bearing this name in Massachusetts. Savage, i. Win-
hrop, 33. Snow, Hist. Boston, 137. •||WILLIAM, Boston, was
on a jury, 28 Sept. 1630 ; representative 1637 ; member of the
ar. CO. 1643; was afterwards of Watertown. He removed to
Rhode-Island, and was the first secretary of the colony, but return-
ed to Boston, and finally to England, where he died. His children
recorded in Boston records, were Edward, b. and d. 1630 ; Han-
nah, b. 25 Dec. 1631 ; Elizabeth, (the name of his wife) b. 30
Sept. 1633 ; Samuel, b. 30 Sept. 1635 ; Ethlan, b. 1 March, 1637 ;
Dorcas, b. 14 Feb. 1640. Savage, i. Winthrop, 33. 2. Coll. Mass.
Hist. Soc. X. Index.
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ASTWOOD. ATKINSON.
ASTWOOD, JAMES, Dorchester, freeman 1639, was probably
pne of the founders of the ^d church in Boston. Sons, Jobo, and
Joseph were b. in 1640 and 1644. |JOHN, MassacbuseUs, firee^
man in 1636, removed to New-Haven colony, and settled at Milford
as early as 1639, and was elected one of the aasistaBts oar magift*
trates m 1653.
ATHERTON, tll*HUMPHREY, Dorchester, came, it is s«i>,
posed, from Lancashire ; was admitted freeman 1636 ; member of
the ar. co. 1638, its captain in 1650 ; representative 1638, nine
years, until 1651 ; assistant 1654 to 1661, eight years, major-gene-
ral on the death of Robert Sedgwick i^ L656. He d. 17 Sept*
(** about one o'clock, A. M.'* says a manuscript note ©f John Hull)
1661. Boston records also say he d. the 17th, although the iBsori{>*
tion copied into Alden's Coll. of Epitaphs, says the 16th. Tradi-
tion reports his death to have been caused by a fall from his horse,
in consequence of riding over a cow, while attending a military re-
view on Boston common. His children were, Jonathan ; Rest, b.
1639; Increase, b. 1641; Thankful, b. 1644; Hope, b. 1646;
Consider ; Watching, b. 1651 ; Pstienoe, b. 1654. Johnson dei-
scribes Major Atherton as '* one of a cheierfid spirit, and iotire for
the country." His descendants still remain in the county of Norfolk*
HOPEy minister of Hatfreld, was son of the preceding, and was
baptized at Dorchester, 30 August, 1646. He grad. in 1665, at
H. C. in the catalogue of which iiis name is Sperantiua. He wa$
a chaplain of the forces under Captain Turner, in Philip's war, and
was at the battle of the falls of Montague, Ms., 18 May, 1676, and
was lost in the woods in the retreat of the troops, but finally return-
ed in safety to Hatfield. The tradition in the family reports that he
became deranged. JAMES, an inhabitant of Dorchester, of Lan<-
caster in 1654, of Milton in 1678, and subsequently of Sherburne,
where he d. in 1707. He had sons, James, b. 13 May, 1654, and
Joshua, b. 13 May, 1656, both b. at Lancaster. Joshua m. Mary
Cuiliver, of Milton, and their sixth son, Peter, b. 12 April, 1705, a
colonel and magiatirate, of Harvard, Ms., was father of the Hon.
Joshua Atherton, H. C. 1762, a senator, and attorney general of
New-Hampshire, and Dr. Israel Atherton, H. C. 1762, of Lancaster,
Ms., who d. in July, 1822, ». 82. Joshua, who d. 3 April, 1809,
was father of Hon. Charles H. Atherton, H. C 1794, of Amherst,
N. H., member of congress from New-Hampshire from 1815 to
1817.
ATKINS, 1 1 ABRAHAM, was a member of the ar. co. in 1642.
Three of the name of Dudley Atkins grad. at H. C. in 1748, 1781,
and 1816, the second of whom is now Dudley Atkins Tyng, a dis-
tinguished gentleman of Newburyport. Two of the name of Elisha
Atkins have grad. at Y. C. and one at Brown Univ.
ATKINSON, JOHN, Newbury 1663, son of the following, m.
Barah Mireck, 27 April, 1664. His sons were, Thomas, b. 27 Dec.
1669, possibly the graduate at H. C. 1691 ; Theodore, b. 1672,
drowned 1685 ; Samuel, b. 16 Jan. 1676 ; Nathaniel, b. 29 Nov.
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AWtlNSON. AVERY.
1677 ; Joseph, b. 1 May, 1682. He had ajeo several dau^^hlers.
IITHEODORE, cam^ from Bury, in Lancashire, a. 1634, mi set-
tied at Bq^oo ; bectame a member of the ar. cq. 1644, ajid d. in
Attgust, 1701., «, 90. Theodore, his son, who was b. 10 April,
1644, had a son Theodore, b. 3 Oct. 1669, and d. at Boston in May,
1676. Nathaniel^ another son, was b. 26 Oct. 1645, and grad. at
H. C. 1667, and d. before 1698. Theodore, the third in succession,
and h. in 1669, was a counsellor of N. H., iu»d d. in 1719, fe. 55,
leaving a son, Theodore, who was b. at New-^^Jastle, N. IJ., 90 Dec.
1697, grad. at H- C. 1718, was a counsellor, judge, and secretary
of N. H., attd d. 32 Sept. 1779, sb, 82, halving had a son Theodore,
H. €. 1759, a counsellor of N. H., who d. before his fath»,28 0ct«
1765, without issue. THOMAS, freeman 1636, lived in Boston,
«ad also i» Concord, where be died a. 1646. Two of his children
were, Susanna, who m. Caleb fisooks in 1660, and Hannah, b. in
1643. THOMAS, Plymouth 1638. Davis, Morton's Memo. 384.
ATWATEJR, JOSHUA, was elected an assistant or magistrate
af Connecticut in 1658. Eleven of the name had grad. at the N.
£. Colleges in 1828.
ATWELL, BENJAMIN, Maine 1675. Hubbard, Wars with
the E^steprn Indians, 33. Two of the name of Atwell hav« grad. in
N. E., both at Brown Univ.
ATWOOD, IIHARMAN, Massadiusetts, member of the ar. co.
Ii&l4, w^ admiitted Ireeman io 1645. Thoma? Atwood, of Mass.,
d. 3 April, 1694. Philip Atwood was one of the first proprietors of
Sradibrd, 'Ms., and John Atwood, from Boston, was there eady in
the la^t century. Four of the name had grad. at Yale College in
1827. JOHN, Plymouth, was an assistant of Plymouth colony in
1638, and d. in 1644, having brought to N. E. a large estate. Da-
vis, Morton's Memo. 121. WILLIAM, Charlestown, was admitted
fteeman in 1652.
AUDLEY, EDMUND, Lynu 1641. Lewis.
AUGER, NICHOLAS, a learned physician of New-Haven in
1638, had brothers, John and Robert. Dodd, East-Haven Register.
WILLIAM, admitted freeman in 1631, lived in Salem in 1637, and
d. in 1654. Jonathan Ager or Auger was of Salem in 1665.
AULT, JOHN, Pascataqua 1631, was living in 1652.
AUSTIN, ANTHONY, Rowley, had a son Anthony b. in 1667.
Seventeen of the name of Austin had grad. at the N. £. colleges in
1828. FRANCIS, Dedham 1638. JONAS, Hingham 1635, re-
moved to Taunton. Lincoln, Hist. Hingham. There was a Jonas
Austin of Cambridge in 1634, who may have been the one at Hing-
ham the next year.
AVERILL, WILLIAM, Ipswich, died in 1652 or 1653.
AViaiY, CHRISTOPHER, was one of the selectmen of Glou-
cester in 1646. Felt. A Thomas Avery, a blacksmith, was of
Salem in 1659. Ibid. Seventeen of the name of Avery had grad.
at the N. E. colleges in 1828. JAMES, New-London 1648. Trumi-
bull, i. Hist. Conn. 169. JOHN, a minister, was wrecked, and
perished in a storm, 15 August, 1635, with his wife and 8 children^
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AVERY. BAILEY.
in going from Newbury or Ipswich to Marblehead, where he was
about to settle. Mather, Magnalia. Alden. JOHN, Boston, d.
31 July, 1654. WILLIAM, received a grant of land at Ipswich
in 1638. A William Avery was member of the ar. co. in 1654, and
representative for Springfield 1669.
AVIS, WILLIAM, Boston, had a son John, b. in 1664.
AUBREY, WILLIAM, a merchant of Boston, m. Rachel, daugh-
ter of Secretary Rawson, 18 Jan. 1653. He may be the same whom
Whitman [Hist. Sketch of Ar. Co., 157] calls William Auberg.
AWKLEY, MILES, Boston, had a son Miles, b. in 1638.
AXEY, ♦JAMES, Lynn 1636, was representative in 1654, and
d. in 1669. Frances, his wife, d. in 1669, leaving an estate of
^32. 9. 6. Lewis.
AXTELL, HENRY, an inhabitant of Sudbury, and in 1660, of
Marlborough, was killed by the Indians in 1675. Rev. Henry
Axtell, D. D., grad. at New-Jersey College in 1796.
AVER, JOHN, Salisbury 1640, Ipswich 1648, d. at Haverhill
in 1657. Descendants are numerous in Massachusetts, and are in
Concord, N. H. *PETER, Haverhill, was admitted freeman in
1666, and was chosen representative in 1683, 1685, 1689, and 1690.
ROBERT, and THOMAS, were of Haverhill, and admitted free-
men in 1668.
AYLET, JOHN, Boston, 1655.
BABB, PHILIP, Isle of Shoals, N. H. 1658. The name still
exists in New-Hampshire.
BABCOCK, GEORGE, Boston, d. 2 Sept. 1695. Twelve of
the name had grad. at the N. E. colleges in 1828, besides two at
Harvard of the name of Badcock.
BACHELLER, JOHN. (See Batchelor.)
BACKUS, , Saybrook 1637. Twelve persons of this
name had grad. at Yale and Dartmouth in 1828. Rev. Isaac Back-
us, a distinguished Baptist minister, died in 1806, se. 82.
BACON, GEORGE, Hingham 1635. Lincoln, Hist. Hingham,
43. Ten of the name of Bacon had grad. at the N. E. colleges in
1828. NATHANIEL, Plymouth colony, was an assistant in 1667.
WILLIAM, Salem, died a. 1653. -
BADGER, GILES, NATHANIEL, and RICHARD, were in-
habitants of Newbury in 1647. Giles d. 17 July, 1648, leaving is-
sue. Eight of the name had grad in N. E. in 1828.
BAGLEY, SAMUEL, Weymouth 1658.
BAILEY, JOHN, minister of Watertown and Boston, was b.
24 Feb. 1644, in Lancashire, England, came to N. E. about 1683,
was settled at Watertown, 6 Oct. 1686 ; removed to Boston 1692,
and became assistant minister of the frrst church, 17 July, 1693, and
d. 12 Dec. 1697, in his 54th year. JOHN, Newbury and Salisbu-
ry. (See Bayley.) RICHARD, Lynn 1647, removed to Salem
and died a. 1648. Theophilus Bailey, of Lynn 1645, d. in 1694.
Lewis. THOMAS, Weymouth, freeman 1640. THOMAS, bro-
ther of Rev. John Bailey, was his assistant in the ministry several
years, and d. at Watertown, in Jan. 1689.
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BAKER. BALDWIN.
BAKER, ALEXANDER, Boston, freeman 1646, had sons, Al-
exander, b. 1635 ; Sapiuel, b. 1637 ; John, b. 1640 ; Joshua, b.
1642 ; WiDiam, b. 1647 ; Benjamin, b. 1652 ; and Josiah, b. 1654.
Eighteen of the name had grad. at the N. E. colleges in 1828.
EDWARD, Lynn, freeman 1638, d. in March, 1687, leaving sons,
Edward and Thomas. Lewis. An Edward Baker was of North-
ampton in 1658. FRANCIS, Boston, had a son Nathaniel b. in
1642. JOHN, Ipswich 1634, probably the freeman of that year.
JOHN, Boston 1640, removed to Newbury. He was one of the
two, of this name, admitted freeman 1641. Winthrop, ii. Hist. N.
E. 29. •JOHN, representative for Dover, may be the freeman of
1647. JOHN, Dedham, freeman 1641 . JOHN, Boston, had sons,
John ; Thomas, b. 1653 ; Samuel, b. 1654 ; Nathaniel, b. 1656. A
John Baker was member of the ar. co. 1644 ; and a John Baker
was admitted freeman 1642. LANCELOT, Boston 1644. NA-
THANIEL, Hingham 1635. NICHOLAS, Hingham, freeman
1636, representative 1636 and 1638, removed to Scituate, and was
the third minister of the 1st church, and d. 22 Aug. 1678, se 68,
leaving widow Grace, and sons, Samuel, Nathaniel, and Nicholas.
RICHARD, Dorchester, member of the church 1639, freeman
1642. A Richard Baker was member of the ar. co. in 1658. RO-
BERT, Salem 1640. Savage, ii. Winthrop, 24. Felt, MS letter.
THOMAS, Boston, freeman 1649, died 3 Jan. 1699. He had sons,
John, b. 1654 ; Joseph, b. 1657, and perhaps Thomas, who d. at
Boston 1703. THOMAS, East-Hampton, L. L 1650. {THOMAS,
was elected one of the magistrates of Connecticut in 1658. •THO-
MAS, Topsfield, freeman 1669, was representative 1686, 1689, and
1690, and a military officer. THOMAS, Roxbury, d. 28 Jan. 1684.
Thomas Baker, jr., of Roxbury, was killed by the Indians with Capt.
Wadsworth, 27 April, 1676. WILLIAM, Charlestown, freeman
1634. One of this name was in Boston 1652, and had sons John
and William, b. there in 1653 and 1655. A William Baker d. in
Concord in 1679.
BALCH, JOHN, came from Bridgewater, in Somersetshire, and
having resided at Cape Ann, as early as 1625, settled at Salem in
1626, and died there in 1648. He lefl three sons, one of whom,
John, was drowned in crossing the ferry to Beverly in Jan. 1662.
His wives were Margaret and Agnes. Felt, Annals Salem, 6, 7.
179. Rev. WUliam Balch, H. C. 1724, of Bradford, Ms., who d.
12 Jan. 1792, s. 87, was one of his descendants.
BALDWIN, GEORGE, Boston, had a son John, b. in 1639, d.
1643. He may have been the George Baldwin, who was at Hunt>
ington, L. I. in 1672. The name of Baldwin is an ancient one, and
may be traced beyond A. D. 672, when Baldwinus was consecrated
bishop of North-Elmham. See Bloomfield's Topog. Hist. Norfolk.
Forty-two persons of the name had grad. at the N. E. colleges in
1826, besides several at New-Jersey College. HENRY, Woburn,
freeman 1652, came, it is supposed, from Devonshire, England.
He m. Phebe Richardson in 1649, and had sons, Henry ; John, b.
1656 ; Daniel, b. 1659. Henry had 3 sons, Henry, who d. 20 Dec.
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BALDWIN, BAMttSi
1753 ; David, a^d James. David was father of WilHam Baldwin,
H. C. 1748, a magistrate of Sudbury, and Samuel Baldwin, H. C«
1752, minister of Hanover, Ms. James was fatlier of Loammi Bald-
win, member of the American Academy, and the friend and corres*
pondent of Count Rumford. JOHN, with his wife Joanna, Was
living in Dedham in 1635, and had a son John, b. there that year*
There was a John Baldwin of Hadley in 1671. JOHN, wa» a pe*-
titioner for the grant of Chelmsford in 1653, and probably the same
who settled in Billerica, where he d. 25 Sept. 1687. His deiscend-
ants are numerous in Billerica and othef places. John Baldwin, at
eolonel and magistrate of Billerict, is one of them. RICHARD,
Braintree 1637, [Win thr op, ii. Hist. N. E. 348} may be the same
named by Trumbull in the 1st vol. Hist. Conn^
BALL, ALLING, New-Haven 1644. Ten of the name of BaB
had grad. at the N. E. colleges in 1827. FRANCIS, Springfield
1644. Sprague, Hist. Discourse. JOHN, Coneord, camie from
Wiltshire, England, and was admitted freeman 1650, d. 1 Nov.
1655. His children were, John, who wd.s of Watertown and Lan-
caster, and Nathaniel, who settled in Concord, and had sons, Na^
thaniel, Ebenezer, Eleazar, and John* Shattuck. RICHARD,
Salisbury 1650.
BALLANTINE, WILLIAM, Boston 1653, had sons, John, b.
1653, member of the ar. co. 1682, its captain 1703 ; David, b. 1656 ;
Benjamin^ b. 1661 ; William, b. 1665. His grandson John, H. Gs
1694, a member of the ar. co. 1694, representative of Boston, and
elerk of the cotrt of common pleas, was father of Rev. John Ballan«
tine, of Westfield, who grad. at H. C. 1735.
BALLARD, WILLIAM, Lynn 1637, freeman and member of
the ar. co. 1638, removed to Andover, and had sons, Joseph, Wil-
liam, and John, who settled there. There was a Nathaniel Ballard
of Lynn 1650.
BALSTONE, JOHN, Boston, d. 6 June, 1706, «. 86. JONA-
THAN, Boston, had sons, John, b. 1645 ; Jonathan, b. 1661 J
James, b. 1657 ; Robert, b. 1662 ; Benjamin, b. 1663. WILLIAM,
Boston, was adnlitted freeman 1631, went to Rhode-Island. 2 CoU.
Mass. Hist. Soc/ vii. 98.
BAMBRIDGE, GUY, Cambridge 1634, freeman 1635. Some-
times written Banbridge.
BANCROFT, JOHN, Lynn, died a. 1687, having had sons,
John, Thomas, and Ebenezer. Some of the family settled in Read-
ing. Mather [ii. Magnalia, 32] relates a remarkable anecdote of
Thomas Bancroft, who was a deacon of the church in 1697. Six of
the name had grad. at Harvard and Williams, and one at Bronvn, in
1828. ROGER, Cambridge 1686, freemaft 1642, d. 28 Nov. 1653.
BANDy GEORGE, freeman 1650. There is some ddttbt whe-
ther this is Band or Rand. ROBERT, Connecticut, tras elected
a magistrate in 1659.
BANGS, EDWARD, was bom at Chichester, England, in 1692^
arrived at Plymouth, in the ship Ann, in July, 1628. He was a
ship^wtight, and tradition in the family refports that he superintended
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the construction of the first ship huilt at Plymouth. He removed,
with Gov. Prince and others, to Eastham, in 1644, and there d. in
1678, ae. 86. His son Jonathan was b. at Plymouth, 1640, went
with his &ther to Eastham, m. Mary Mayo, 16 July, 1664, d. at
Harwich, now Brewster, in 1728. Edward, son of Jonathan, was
b. at Eastham, 30 Sept. 1665, d. 22 May, 1746, leaving a son Ed-
ward, b. in 1694, d. 3 June, 1755, whose son Benjamin was father
to Edward D. Bangs, esquire, secretary of the commonwealth of
Mass. JOHN, Plymouth 1637.
BANKES, RICHARD, was a member of the church at York
in 1673.
BANNISTER, CHRISTOPHER, Marlborough 1657, d. 30
March« 1678. Thomas Banister grad. at H. C. 1700. John Ban-
nister grad. at H. C. 1764. Hon. W. B. Banister grad. at D. C.
1797.
BARBER, EDWARD, Dorchester, d. 9 June, 1677, se. 80.
||*GEORGE, Dedham 1643, member of the ar. co. 1646, was rep-
resentative in 1668, 1669, and 1682, of Medfield, in which place he
was the principal military officer. JOHN, Salem 1637, admitted
to the church 3 April, 1646, is styled a carpenter. *JOHN, Med-
field, representative 1677. RICHARD, Dedham, freeman 1640,
d. 18 June, 1644. This name is written Barbore. WILLIAM,
Marblehead 1648.
BARDEN, JOHN, was in the class of graduates at Harv. Coll.
of 1647. He went to England.
BAREFOOTE, WALTER, New-Hampshire 1660, was a coun-
sellor in 1682, deputy governour 1685.
BARKER, EDWARD, Boston 1650, had a son Thomas, i>.
1657. Twelve of this name had grad. at the N. E. colleges in
1827. JAMES, Rowley, freeman 1640. One of this name went
early to Rhode-Island. 2 Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. vii. 93. RICH-
ARD, Andover 1645, d. 1695, had five sons, who settled in Ando-
ver, viz. John, Ebenezer, Richard, Stephen, and Benjamin. THO-
MAS, Massachusetts, freeman 1640.
BARLOW, GEORGE, Exeter 1639, Saco 1652. JOHN, Fair-
field 1668. Joel Barlow, LL. D., a native of Reading, Conn. grad.
at Y. C. 1778, died in Poland in 1812, 9b. 54. Holmes ii. Annals,
451. THOMAS, Boston, d. 13 Oct. 1661.
BARNARD, FRANCIS, is reported to have removed fi'om
Hartford to Hadley as early as 1662 ; was admitted freeman ' 1663.
He is the great ancestor of all the divines of the name of Barnard
who have grad. at H. C, excepting John, H. C. 1700, of Marble-
head, and Jeremiah, H. C. 1773, of Amherst, N. H. MASSA-
CHEL, Weymouth 1637, had daughters Mary and Sarah, b. in
1637 and 1639. Th« first Minister of Weymouth, according to
Prince, [i. Annals, 151] was a Rev. Mr. Barnard. ||MATTHEW,
Boston, Member of the ar. co. 1660, fi^eeman 1673. His wife Sa-
rah d. 31 August, 1659. Sons, John, b. 29 Sept. 1654, member of
the ar. co. 1677 ; Thomas, b. 4 AprO, 1657 ; Benjamin, b. 6 Jan.
1662. IIRICHARD, Boston, member of the ar. co. 1662, d. 20
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BARNARD. BARSflAM.
Dec. 1706. ROBERT, one of the founders of the church in Ando-
yer, in 1645. Two of his sons, John and Stephen, settled in Ando-
ver. Rev. Jeremiah Barnard, H. C. 1773, is one of his descendants.
THOMAS, third minister of Andover, was son of Francis Barnard,
[Alden] and grad. at H. C. in 1679. He was ordained as colleague
with Rev. Francis Dane in 1682, and d. 13 Oct. 1718, and was
succeeded by his son John, H. C. 1709, who d. 14 June, 1757,
SB. 69, leaving sons, Thomas, H. C. 1732, minister of Newbury and
Salem ; and Edward, H. C. 1736, minister of Haverhill. Thomas
d. 5 August, 1776, ». 60, leaving a son Thomas, H. C. 1766, min-
ister of the north church in Salem, who d. 1 Oct. 1814, «e. 67. Ed-
ward d. 26 Jan. 1774, ae. 54, leaving a son Edward, H. C. 1774,
a physician of Salem, who d. Dec. 1^22, se. 67, leaving an only son
Edward, and a grandson Edward, both of Salem. TOBIAS, one
of the graduates in the first class at H. C. 1642, went to England.
Johnson, Hist. N. E. 165.
BARNES, DANIEL, New-Haven 1644. Thirteen of the name
of Barnes and Barns had grad. at the N. E. colleges in 1826.
JOSHUA, East-Hampton, L. I. 1650. MATTHEW, Braintree
1640, Boston 1653. Snow, Hist. Boston. RICHARD, Marlbo-
rough 1660. THOMAS, Hingham 1637, freeman 1645. THO-
MAS, New-Haven 1644, waa brother of Daniel, and had sons,
Thomas, b. 1653 ; Daniel, and May bee. Dodd, East-Haven Reg.
WILLIAM, freeman 1641, was one of the proprietors of Salisbury
in 1640.
BARNET, , was an early minister of New-London.
Mather, i. Magnalia, 216. THOMAS, Salisbury 1640. Felt.
BARNEY. •JACOB, Salem, freeman 1634, was representative in
1635, 1638, 1647, and 1653, d. 1673. Felt, Annals Salem.
BARRELL, GEORGE, Boston, freeman 1643, d. 11 Sept. 1643,
(I JOHN, Boston, member of the ar. co. 1643, its ensign in 1656, d.
29 August, 1658. He had sons, John, b. 1645 ; John, 2d, b. 1652 ;
William, b. 1654 ; John, 3d, b. 1656. THOMAS, Massachusetts,
was admitted freeman 1645. WILLIAM, Boston, d. 20 August,
1639.
BARRETT, HUMPHREY, Concord 1640, freeman in 1657, d.
in Nov. 1662. His children were, Thomas, drowned in Concord
River 1660; Humphrey, a representative of Concord 1691, who
had sons, Joseph and Benjamin ; and John, who settled in Marlbo-
rough. Shattuck, MS Hist. Concord. THOMAS, d. at Chelm»-
ford, 6 Oct. 1668, leaving a son Thomas, and others.
BARRON, DANIEL, Woburn 1653. William A., Oliver, and
Thomas Barron grad. at H. C. in 1787, 1788, and 1796. ELLIS,
Watertown, who, from the colony records, is called by Mr. Savage,
Barrow, was admitted freeman 1641, had a wife Grace ; a daughter
of this name b. 1640, and a son Moses, b. 1643, who probably settled
at Chelmsford, and was ancestor of Oliver Barron, H. C. 1788, a
physician, who died in the Isle of Man, in 1809. W. Winthrop.
BARSHAM, JOHN, son of the following, was born at Water-
town 1685, grad. at H. C. 1658. There was a John Barsham who
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BAR8HAM. BARTLETT.
lived in New-Hampshire, whose children were, Annabel!, Mary,
Dorothy, Sarah, and William, born between 1669 and 1678. WIL-
LIAM, Watertown, came to N. £. in 1630, was admitted freeman
1637, had sons John and Joshua, b. in Watertown in 1635 and 1639.
BARSTOW, IJGEORGE, was a member of the ar. co. 1644.
Five persons, uniting the name as above, and Bastow, had grad. in
N. E, in 1827. ♦MICHAEL, Watertown, was representative in
1653. WILKIN, Dedham 1636. See Worthington's Hist. Ded-
ham, p. 42, where the name is spelled Bearstawe. WILLIAM,
Dedham, where his son Joseph was born ; was afterwards of Scitp
Qate.
BARTHOLEMEW, •HENRY, was born in 1606, came from
London to N. E. 7 Nov. 1635 ; settled at Salem, which he repre-
sented in 1635, and 18 years afterwards. He was admitted freeman
in 163- ; d. 1692. Two of his children were baptized in 1641 and
1643. Felt. IIRICHARD, Salem, was admitted to the church 31
July, 1640, freeman 1641, member of the ar. co. 1643, d. 1646.
Ibid. •WILLIAM, brother of Henry, of Salem, elected represents
ative in 1635, and 7 years afterwards, appears to have been of Mar-
blehead in 1674, and may have d. at Charlestown, 18 Jan. 1681.
BARTLETT, CHRISTOPHER, Newbury, was born a. 1623,
m. his first wife in 1645, his second, Mary Hoyt, in 1660, and d. 15
March, 1670, «. 47. His children were, Christopher, b. 11 June,
1655, m. Deborah Weed 1677 ; Jonathan, b. 1657, d. 1659 ; John,
who d. young ; Mary, and Martha. Forty persons of the name of
Bartlett have received the honours of the N. E. colleges. JOHN,
Newbury 1637, d. 5 Feb. 1679, e. 66. Joan, his wife, d. 13 Sept.
1678. RICHARD, Newbury 1637, d. 25 May, 1647, leaving sons,
Richard and Christopher. •RICHARD, son of the preceding, was
born 1621, settled in Newbury, which he represented from 1679 to
1681, and in 1684. He d. in 1698, s. 77. Abigail, his wife, died
1 March, 1687. His sons were, Samuel, b. 20 Feb. 1646, m. Eliz-
abeth Titcomb, 1671 ; Richard, b. 21 Feb. 1649, m. Hannah Eme-
ry, 18 Nov. 1673, and had 9 sons and 2 daughters ; Thomas, b. 7
Sept. 1650, m. Tirzah Titcomb, 1685; John, b. 2 June, 1655, m.
Mary Rust, 1680. Richard, the eldest of the 9 sons of Richard, was
b. 20 Oct. 1676, and was the grandfather of Dr. Richard Bartlett,
of Pembroke, N. H., a grandson of whom is Richard Bartlett,
secretary of state of N. Hampshire. Stephen, the sixth son of
Richard Bartlett, was father of Gov. Josiah Bartlett, one of the sign-
ers of the Declaration of Independence. He was b. at Amesbury,
in Nov. 1729, and d. at Kingston, 19 May, 1795, s. 64, leaving
three sons, Levi, Josiah, and Ezra, who have been members of the
senate or council of New-Hampshire, and the 2d a member of con-
gress, and president of the N. H. Med. Soc. ROBERT, Plymouth
1623. Davis, Morton's Memo. 385. ROBERT, Northampton
1658. A Robert Bartlett was of Conn, in 1646, and is named in a
note to the 1st vol. of Trumbull. THOMAS, Dedham 1636, may
have been the ensign of Watertown in 1639, and who d. there, 26
April, 1654, e. 60.
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BARTOLL. BATEMAN.
BARTOLL, JOHN, Marblehead 1648.
BARTON, RUFUS, Providence, 1648. Winthrop, ii. Hist. N.
E. 323. THOMAS, Massachusetts 1646. Davis, Morton's Memo.
236.
BASCOM, THOMAS, Northampton 1658. Ten persons of the
name of Bascom had grad. in N. E. in 1826.
BASS, JOHN, Braintree, m. Ruth, daughter of John Alden, of
Plymouth, 12 April 1657, and had children, John, b. 26 Nov. 1658 ;
Samuel, b. 25 March, 1660 ; Ruth ; Joseph ; Sarah ; and perhaps
others. JOSEPH, Braintree 1648. •SAMUEL, Braintree, free-
man 1634, the first deacon of the church, and in office above 50
years, viras representative 1641, 12 years, d. 3 Dec. 1694, 8b. 94,
having seen 162 descendants. Ann, his wife, d. 5 Sept. 1698.
SAMUEL, Massachusetts, was admitted freeman 1648. THOMAS^
was admitted freeman 1656. WILLIAM, Massachusetts, freeman
1638.
BASSETT, WILLIAM, Plymouth 1623, Duxbury 1639, repre-
sentative 1640 and 1644. WILLIAM, Lynn 1659, had sons, Wil-
liam and Elisha. Lewis.
BATCHELOR, JOHN, Salem, came, according to tradition, from
Dorsetshire, was admitted to the church, 23 June, 1639, freeman in
1640, and died in 1646. His descendants write the name Batchel-
der, of whom is John. P. Batchelder, M. D., late president of the
Berkshire Medical Institution. JOHN, Dedham, probably one of
the early proprietors of Watertown, had sons, Samuel, b. 8 Jan.
1640 ; Jonathan and David, (gemini) b. 14 Dec. 1643. •JOSEPH,
Salem, freeman 1638; was afterwards of Wenham, which he repre-
seated in 1644. STEPHEN, the first minister of Lynn and
Hampton, was born in England, a. 1561, arrived at Boston, with
Rev. Thomas Weld, 5 June, 1632 ; was the next year settled at
Lynn, and in 1638 or 1639, became the minister of Hampton, but
was dismissed in 1641. He is supposed to have returned to Eng-
land in 1655 or 1656, leaving in America, a wife, Mary, who in
1656, petitioned the general court for a divorce, stating that her
husband. Rev. S. B., upon some pretended ends of his own, had
gone to England, and had taken a new wife, and expressing her
wish to be at liberty to marry, if she should have a good opportuni-
ty, and the Lord should incline her heart. She also stated that she
had two children, who were diseased. Mr. B. must therefore have
been between 95 and 100 years when he died. His grandson Na-
thaniel was a respectable inhabitant of Hampton, and living in 1690,
and descendants of the minister are said to be numerous in Rock-
ingham county, N. H. WILLIAM, Charlestown, freeman 1644, d.
22 Feb. 1668. His son Joseph was b. 20 August, 1644.
BATEMAN, NATHANIEL, Watertown 1640, THOMAS,
Concord, was admitted freeman 1642, d. 6 Feb. 1669, e. 55, leav-
ing sons, Thomas ; Peter, who d. in Woburn 1676 ; John, and Eb-
enezer. Shattuck, MS Hist. Concord. WILLIAM, Concord,
brother of the preceding, was admitted fireman 1641, and removed
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BATEMAN. BAXTER.
to Chelmsford. WILLIAM, perhaps the &ther of the preceding,
was admitted freeman 18 May, 1631.
BATES, CLEMENT, was admitted freeman 1636. Seventeen
of the name of Bates had grad. at the N. E. colleges in 1827.
*EDWARD, Boston, a. 1636, freeman 1638, and the representative
of Weymouth, where he probably settled, from 1638 to 1641, and
1660. GEORGE, Boston, freeman 1636. Belknap, i. Hist. N. H.
36. *JAMES, Dorchester and Hingham, freeman 1636, represents
ative 1641 from Hingham.
BATT, •CHRISTOPHER, Newbury, freeman 1638, removed
to Salisbury, which he represented in 1640, 1641, 1643, and 1650;
removed to Boston, and was accidentally killed by his son, 10 Aug.
1661. EDWARD, Weymouth 1639, had sons. Increase and Ed-
ward, b. in 1641 and 1655. NICHOLAS, a linen-draper of New-
bury, was admitted freeman in 1638, and d. Sti June, 1662.
BATTEN, HUGH, Dorchester, d. 8 June, 1659.
BATTER, •EDMUND, Salem, representative 1637, and 16
years afterwards ; d. 1685, se. 76.
BATTLE, THOMAS, freeman 1657, should perhaps be Bratth.
ROBERT, Boston, d. 23 Dec. 1658.
BAUDOUIN, PIERRE, a physician at Rochelle, in France, es-
caped thence on the revocation of the edict of Nantes, 8 Oct. 1685,
to Ireland, and thence soon after to Casco, now Portland, Me., and
from Casco went to Boston, in 1690. He left several children, one
said to have been the ancestor of the Bowdoins in Virginia, and
another, Hon. James Bowdoin, an eminent merchant of Boston, and
a member of the council, who d. in 1747, leaving five children,
William, Mary, Elizabeth, Judith, and James. William was b. 14
June, 1713, grad. at H. C. 1735, d. 24 Feb. 1773, leaving one child,
Sarah Bowdoin Dearborn, James the youngest, was b. 7 Aug.
1726, grad. at H. C. 1745, was member of the council from 1757
to 1769; president of the convention which formed the constitution
of Mass. ; a founder and the first president of the Americivp Acade-
my ; and governour of Mass. in 1785 and 1786. He d. at Boston,
6 Nov. 1790, aB. 64, leaviilg two children, James, H. C. 1771, min-
ister plenipotentiary from the U. S. to Spain, and d. without issue,
25 Oct. 1811, ae. 59, and Elizabeth, who m. Sir John Temple, con-
sul general and minister resident to the U. S. from Great Britain,
and d. in 1809, leaving 2 sons and 2 daughters. One of the daugh-
ters m. Hon. Thomas L. Winthrop, lieut. gov. of Mass., one of
whose sons, James Bowdoin Winthrop, at the request of his uncle,
has dropt the name of Winthrop, and is now the only male repre-
sentative of the Bowdoin family in New-England.
BAXTER, GEORGE, an arbitrator for settling the line between
New-Haven and the Dutch 1650. Hutchinson, i. Hist. Mass. 149,
but in the appendix, p. 447, his signature to the determination is
Theo, Baxter, GREGORY, Roxbury 1630, Braintree freeman
1632, 4l. 24 June, 1659. By Margaret, his wife, who d. 13 March,
1662. he had 1. Abigail, who m. Joseph Adams ; 2. Dearing ; 3.
John, b. 1 Dec. 1639, m. Hannah White 1660, was a lieutenant,
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apd d. at Praiptr^e, 89 April, 1719, ®. 81, the ftither of R^v. Joseph
Baxter, b/4 June, 1676, grad. at H. C, IC^S, wa9 the mimster of
Medfield, and d. g May, J745, baviog had, by W wife Mary Fiske,
q1[ B^aintree, 6 children, of whom Joseph, H. C. 17^4, a pbyucian,
wa* b. 14 May, 17Q6, and d. of the smaU poxoa his j)as8ag^ to Eng*
land. Shaituck. NICHOLAS, Boston J639. A Nicholas Ba^tw
d. at Boston, 10 Jan. 1698.
BAYES, THOMAS, Etedham 1643, Boston 1645, where his son
Thomas was b. 1645.
BAYLEY, JOHN, came (row Chippenham, Wilshire, a, 1639,
find dn his passage was wrecked at Pemaqutd. He settled at Salis*
bury, from thence remoTed to Newbury , a. 1650, and d. ? Nov. 1651,
Coffin. Twenty->six of the name Bailey and Baytey had grad. in
N. E. in 1828. JOHN, son of the preceding, came with his father
to N. E. and settled at Newbury, where he d. 22 July, 1662. His
children were Sarah, b. 1Q41 ; Joseph, b. 4 April, 1648 ; Ja^es, b.
12 Sept. 165Q ; Joshua, b, 17 Feb, 1658. Rev. Abner Biiley, H.
C. 1736, of Salem, N. H., was one of his descendants.
BAYNLY, THOMAS, Concord, d> 18 March, 1643.
BEACH, RICHARD, Cambridge 1635, Watertown 1639 ; roaj
have removed to New-Haven, where John, son of Richard Beach,
was b. 1639. Rev. Abraham Beach, D. D. grad. at Y. C. 1757.
BEADSLEY, WILLIAM, Hassaelmsetts, was admitted freeman
1638.
BEAL, ♦JOHN, a shoemaker, who, with his wife, five sonsi, and
three daughters and two servants, came from Hingham, England,
and settled in Hingham, Ms., which he represented in 1649. Judge
Sewall records the death of a Mr. Beal in 1688, aged 100 years.
JEREMIAH, Hingham 16581, freeman 1667. •NATHANIEIi,
Hingham 1654, was representative 1676, 1677. THOMAS, Cam-
bridge 1634, freeman 1636. WILLIAM, Plymouth 1623.
BEAMAN, GAMALIEL, 1659, d. 1707, leaving a son John,
whose son Gamaliel was b. 1684, d. 1745, at Sterling, Ms. Wor*
Chester Magazine, ii. 39.
BEAMSLEY, WILLIAM, Boston 1632. (See Bensx^ey.)
BEAN, PHILIP, Salem 1638. Six of the name had grad. at
Harv. and mrt. in 1828.
BEARD, THOMAS, Massachusetts, was admitted freeman 1643.
WILLIAM, Dover 1643.
BEAUCHAMP, EDWARD, Salem, freeman 1643, admitted to
the church, 29 Dec. 163% Prince, ii. Annab, 118. Felt. RICH-
ARD, Massachusetts, freeman 1641. ROBERT, Ipswich 1648.
Spelled also BeachanL
BECK, ALEXANDER, freeman 1634, bad sons Ephraim,
Strange, and Deliverance, all born 1 June, 1640 ; Manasseh, b.
1645. Four of the name had grad. iat Union College in 1828.
BECKFORD, JOHN, Dover 1659, Oyster-River, now Durham,
N. H. 1669. Thomas Beckford, or Bickford, whose bravery is no-
ticed by Mather, [Magnalia, ii. 544] and named by Haven, [Re-
mains, 201 was probably a son.
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BEEBE, JAMES, Hadley 1668. Eight of the name had, iii
1828, grad. at the N. E. colleges.
BEECHER, *THOMAS, Charlestown, freeman 1632, was a
representative at the first general court, 14 May, 1634 and the 6
courts in 1635 and 1636. Kev. Lyman Beecher, D. D., of Boston,
grad. at Y. C. in 1797.
BEERS, ANTHONY, Massachusetts, freeman 1667. Pour of
the name of Beers have received the honours of Yale College.
*RIGHARD, Watertown, freeman 1637, was representative from
1663 to 1675, 13 years, and captain in Philip's war. He was killed
in battle with the Indians at Northfield, Ms., 4 Sept. 1675. His
name is spelled Beares in colony records.
BEETFIELD, SAMUEL, Boston, d. 1 Sept. 1660.
BELCHER, IIANDREW, Sudbury 1640, Cambridge 1646, Wad
member of the ar. co. 1642. He m. Elizabeth, daughter of Nicho^
las Danforth, and his children were Elizabeth, Jemima, Martha,
Anna, and Andrew. Andrew was b. at Cambridge, 1 Jan. 1047,
removed to Boston 1703, was a captain, and several years counsel^
lor, and d. in the autumn of 1717, leaving one son, Jonathan Belcher,
b. in Jan. 1681, grad at H. C. 16d9, the governour of Mass. and
N. H. from 1730 to 1741, and afterwards of New-Jersey, and 4
daughters, Sarah Fay, of Charlestown, . Elizabeth Oliver, Martha
Stoddard, and Anna Noyes, of Charlestown. Dr. Holmes [i. Amer.
Annals, 4251erroneously makes Thomas Belcher father of the go-
vernour. Edward, Boston, freeman 1631. Satisfaction, b.
1656, and John, b. 1657, were sons of Edward Belcher, of Boston,
but perhaps not of Edward Belcher the freeman. GREGORY,
Braintree, freeman 1640, d. 21 June 1659. Sons, Samuel, b, 24
Aug. 1637 ; Joseph, b. 25 Dec. 1641. Dea. Gregory Belcher, per-
haps his grandson, d. 4 Nov. 1727, le. 63. JEREMY, Ipswich,
was born 1612, freeman 1638, and was living in 1665. SAMUEL,
was a native of Ipswich, and probably son of the preceding, grad. at
H. C. 1659, was a preacher at the Isle of Shoals ; afterwards settled
at West-Newbury, and died in 1714, ae. 74, at Ipswich, to which
place he removed several years before his death.
BELDING, SAMUEL, Hadley 1661, was admitted freeman 1673.
Sixteen of the name of Belden had grad. at Yale college in 1828.
BELKNAP, ABRAHAM, Lynn 1637; Salem, died a. 1643.
Felt. Lewis. Joseph Belknap, of Boston, was probably his son.
He was a member of the ar. co. 1658, and was admitted freeman
in 1669. His children were, Joseph, b. 26 Jan. 1659 ; Nathaniel, b.
13 Aug. 1663 ; Thomas ; John ; Abraham ; Joseph ; Jeremiah, b:
1 Jan. 1687. The historian of N. Hampshire was a descendant
from one of these brothers.
BELL, THOMAS, Roxbury, was admitted freeman in 1636.
Savage, ii. Winth. 39. Eight persons of the name of Bell have grad.
at the N. E. colleges, of whom Hon. Samuel Bell, LL. D., of Chester,
New-Hampshire, is grandson of John Bell, an early inhabitant of
Londonderry, N. H. ||THOMAS, member of the ar. co. 1654, may
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BELLINGHAM. BERKLEY.
have been the one who d. in Boston, 7 June, 1654. His son Joseph
was b. in 1653.
BELLINGHAM, tf^^RICHARD, Boston, representative 1635;
assistant 1636, 14 years ; deputy governour 1635, 13 years ; govern-
our 1641, 10 years ; major-general 1664. He d. 7 Dec. 1672, hav-
ing lived to be the only surviving patentee named in the charter.
He had a number of children. His son James was b. in May, 1656.
John, H. C. 1642, was probably his son. SAMUEL, one of the first
graduates of H. C. 1642, appears to have been living, of Rowley, in
1643, and, fi^om the Magnalia, was living in 1697. WILLIAM,
Rowley, brother of Richard, was admitted freeman 1640, died a.
1650.
BELLOWS, JOHN, Concord 1655, m. Mary Wood, of Marlbo-
rough, where he removed. His children were Mary, Samuel, Abi-
gail, Daniel, and Benjamin.
BEMAN, GAMALIEL, Dorchester 1658. [See Beaman.)
BEMIS, JOSEPH, Watertown, 1640. Three of the name of
Bemis, had, in 1828, grad. at H. C. and one. Rev. Stephen Bemis,
at D. C.
BENDALL, ||EDWARD, Boston, freeman 1634, member of the
ar. CO. 1638. Prince, ii. Annals, 69. Sons, Freegrace, b. 1636 ;
Reform, b. 1639; Hopefor, b. 1641.
BENHAM, JOHN, Massachusetts, was admitted freeman 1631.
BENJAMIN, JOHN, Watertown, fi-eeman 1632, one of the pro-
prietors of Cambridge. Holmes, Hist Cambridge. He d. June, 1645.
John was his eldest son. Savage, i. Winth. 185. RICHARD,
Watertown 1640.
BENNET, DAVID, a physician, d. at Rowley, 4 Feb. 1719, ©.
103. His wife d. 26 March, 1712. His son, Hon. Spencer Phipps,
was baptized at Rowley, 9 Aug. 1685 ; grad. at H. C. 1703, wa»
lieutenant governour of Mass. and d. 4 April, 1757, ». 72. ED-
MUND, Weymouth, freeman 1636. GEORGE, Boston, drowned
27 March, 1652. HENRY, Ipswich 1665. 2 Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc.
viii. 107. JAMES, Concord, freeman 1638 ; removed to Fairfield
Sept. 1644. Thomas, his son, was b. 16 Nov. 1642. JOHN, Sa-
lem 1638; Marblehead 1648. RICHARD, Boston 1645. Snow,
Hist. Boston, 137. ||SAMUEL, Lynn 1637, a carpenter, was mem-
ber of the ar. co. 1639. WILLIAM, Salem 1637, born 1603, died
1683.
BENNING, RALPH, Boston, d. 14 Nov. 1663.
BENSLEY or BEAMSLEY, WILLIAM, freeman 1638, died at
Boston 29 Sept. 1658.
BENT, JOHN, Sudbury, freeman 1640, was one of the propri-
etors of Marlborough, d. at Sudbury, 27 Sept. 1672. PETER,
Sudbury 1656.
BENTON, EDWARD, Guilford, Conn. 1650.
BENYTHON, RICHARD, was one of the first settlers of Saco.
Sullivan, Hist. Maine. (See Bonighton.)
BERKLEY, RICHARD, New-Haven 1651.
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BERNARD. BISHOP.
BERNARD, JOHN, Watertown, was admitted freeman 1634.
His son Joseph b. 1639. JOHN, Cambridge 1634, freeman 1635.
BERRY, WILLIAM, Pascataqua 1632, freeman 1642, was pro-
bably one of the grantees of Newbury.
BESBEDGE, THOMAS, Scituate 1637. Written also Besbeech,
and now spelled Bisbee.
BESSEY, ANTHONY, Lynn; removed to Sandwich 1637.
Lewis.
BETTS, THOMAS, Guilford, Conn. 1650. RICHARD, Ip^-
wich 1648. JOHN, Cambridge 1640, was a proprietor of Lexing-
ton 1642. Boston News-Letter, i. 266.
BETSHAM, RICHARD, freeman 1637.
BEWETT, HUGH, Massachusetts; removed to Providence.
Savaige,^ ii. Winth. 19.
BIBLE, THOMAS, Maiden, died July, 1653.
BICKNELL, •JOHN, Weymouth 1658, representative 1677.
BIGELOW or BIGGELY, JOHN, Watertown 1642, had a son
John, b. 1643. Of the name of Bigelow and Biglow, 24 had grad.
at the N. E. colleges in 1828.
BIGGS, IIJOHN, Boston, freeman 1634 ; Ipswich 1635 ; mem-
ber of the ar. co. 1641.
BILL, JOHN, Boston, d. Dec. 1638.
BILLINGS, JOHN, Portsmouth 1640. Belknap, i. Hist. N. H.
47. NATHANIEL, Concord, was admitted freeman 1641, and d.
24 Aug. 1673, leaving sons, Nathaniel, and John, who married
Elizabeth Hastings, 1661, and d. 1704. Shattuck, MS Hist. Con-
cord. ROGER, Dorchester, member of church 1640, freeman
1643. WILLIAM, one of the proprietors of Lancaster 1654.
BILLINGTON, JOHN, one of the first settlers of Plymouth
1620, hanged in 1630, leaving sons John and Francis, who lived in
Plymouth. Savage, i. Winthrop, 36.
BINGLEY, WILLIAM, Newbury 1665.
BIRCHER, THOMAS, was admitted freeman in 1637.
BIRD, JOHN, Massachusetts, admitted freeman 1645. JATH-
NELL, received a grant of land in Ipswich in 1641. SIMON,
Braintree, freeman 1644, one of the proprietors of Billerica, where
he died, 7 July, 1667. THOMAS, Scituate 1639. THOMAS,
Dorchester 1642.
BIRDLEY, GILES, Ipswich 1648.
BISBEE, THOMAS, Duxbury a. 1645. (See Besbed«b.)
BISCOE, JOHN, Watertown, an early proprietor. Shattuck.
NATHANIEL, Watertown 1642. (See Briscoe.)
BISHOP, Jf JAMES, Connecticut, secretary of New-Haven 1661 ;
assistant of Conn. 1668, deputy governour 1683, d. 22 June, 1691.
JOHN, Newbury, had sons, John, b. 1648 ; Jonathan, 1657 ; No-
ah, 1658 ; David, 1660. JOHN, the minister of Stamford, Conn,
died in 1694. JOHN, jr., Guilford, Conn. 1650. NATHANIEL,
had a houselot in Ipswich in 1638, was admitted freeman in 1645,
when he appears to have lived in Boston. He had sons, Joseph, b.
1642; Benjamin, b. 1644; John, b. 1646; Samuel, b. 1647; all
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BISHOP. BLAKR
born in Boston. RICHARD, freeman 1642, Salem 1647, d. 30
Dec. 1674. Felt, MS Annals. Edward Bishop, was one of the
founders of the church in Beverly in 1667. SAMUEL, son of Na-
thaniel Bishop, was born in Boston, 7 March, 1647, and grad. at
H. C. 1665. STEPHEN, Guilford, Conn. 1650. •THOMAS,
Ipswich 1636, representative 1666, died 1671, leaving widow. Mar-
garet ; children, Samuel, John, Thomas, Job, and Nathaniel. His
estate amounted to .£5000. 1. 1. Felt. ♦TOWNSEND, Salens
freeman 1635, representative 1636. Leah, his daughter, baptized
19 June, 1637 ; John, his son, bapt. 31 July, 1642. Felt, Annals
Salem, 171. EDWARD, Salem 1645.
BIXBY, JOSEPH, Ipswich 1648.
BLACK, HENRY, Massachusetts, was admitted freeman 1645.
(See Blake.) JOHN, born 1609, lived in Salem, was admitted
freeman 1632, d. in Beverly, 16 March, 1675. Freeborn, his wife,
d. 1681, SB. 46. RICHARD, was admitted freeman in 1645.
BLACKBORNE, [[WALTER, freeman in 1639 ; member of
the ar. co. in 1638.
BLACKLEACH, ♦JOHN, Salem, admitted freeman 1635 ; rep-
resentative in 1636. In 1637 he had a family of 9 persons. He
had a grant of 300 acres of land in 1636. His son John, of Boston,
had a son John, b. 1660. This name is written Blackleeche on the
records of Salem. [Felt, MS Annals.] Hudson Blackleach grad.
at Y. C. in 1757.
BLACKMANy ADAM, minister of Straiford, Conn, preached
a short time at Scituate, came early to N. E. and died in 1665.
BENJAMIN, grad. at H. C. 1663 ; was a preacher at Maiden 1675.
He m. Sarah Scottow, 1 April, 1675, and lefr Maiden about 1678.
JOHN, Dorchester, admitted member of the church 1658, free-
man 1669, had sons Jonathan and Joseph.
BLACKMER, — , Lynn ; removed to Sandwich 1637.
Lewis
BLACKSTONE, WILLIAM, Boston a. 1626 ; freeman 1631.
He removed, a. 1635, to a place near Rhode-Island, and d. 26 May,
1675. The records of Boston state that he was m. to widow Sarah
Stephenson, 4 July, 1659. She d. June, 1673. Savage, i. Winth.
44, 45. See an interesting note of him in Holmes' Annals, i. 377.
BLAGG, HENRY, Braintree 1643. Son Philip b. 24 March,
1643.
BLAISDELL, RALPH, Salisbury 1640. Silas and Daniel Blais-
dell grad. at D. C. in 1817 and 1827.
BLAKE, GEORGE, Gloucester 1649. Ten of the name of
Blake had grad. at li. C. in 1824. HENRY, Boston, d. 26 July,
1662 ; perhaps the Henry Black made freeman in 1645. *JAMES,
Dorchester, freeman 1652, representative 1677, a deacon and rul-
ing elder of the church, d. 28 June, 1700, ae. 77. JASPER, Hamp-
ton, d. 11 Feb. 1673. ([JOHN, Dorchester, freeman 1644, mem-
ber of the ar. CO. 1642. [[WILLIAM, Dorchester, freeman 1638,
member of the ar. co. 1646. One of the frrst settlers of Springfield,
it is presumed. * WILLI AM, Milton, freeman 1651, admitted a
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BLAKE. BLOTT.
member of the church in Dorchester, 1652, representative 1689.
His son Nathaniel was b. 1659. Rev. T. M. Harris, D. D.
BLAKESLEY, EDWARD, Roxbury, d. Nov. 1637. Solomon
and Tillotson Blakesley grad. at Yale College in 1785.
BLANCH ARD, JOHN, freeman 1649, was probably one of the
founders of the church at Dunstable, 16 Dee. 1685. Nathaniel
Blanchard was of Weymouth in 1662. JOSEPH, Boston, d. Dec.
1637. THOMAS, Charlestown, came to N. E. in the ship Jona-
than, in 1639, and died 21 May, 1654. WILLIAM, admitted mem-
ber of the church of Salem, 7 Feb. 1641, freeman 1641. A WU-
Uam Blanchard d. at Boston Oct. 1652.
BLANDFORD, JOHN, Sudbury 1641. Son John b. 1646.
BLANTON, WILLIAM, Boston, freeman 1643. Snow [Hist.
Boston] spells the name Blaintaine. He died 15 June, 1662.
BLANY, JOHN, Lynn 1656, had a son John. Lewis.
BLATCHLEY, SAMUEL, Guilford, Conn. 1650.
BLINMANj RICHARD, a minister of Gloucester, came to
N. E. 1641, and was admitted freeman the same year. He went
thence to New-London 1648, to New-Haven in 1658, whence he
returned to England, and died in the city of Bristol, '' in a good old
age." Calamy. AUen.
BLISS, GEORGE, Lynn, removed to Sandwich 1637. Lewis.
Twenty-five persons of the name of Bliss had grad. at the N. E.
colleges in 1826, of whom Rev. .Daniel Bliss, of Concord, Ms., a
native of Springfield, grad. at Yale. JOHN, Northampton 1658.
NATHANIEL, Springfield, 1646, d. 18 Sept. 1654. Moses and
Jonathan Bliss were barristers at law in Springfield in 1774. THO-
MAS, was admitted freeman in 1642. LAURENCE, Springfield,
d. 1676.
BLY, THOMAS, Boston 1658, had a son Thomas, b. in 1656.
BLODGETT, DANIEL, Chelmsford 1654, freeman 1652. This
name was anciently written Bloghead, [see I. Mather's Indian
Wars] and was so pronounced within 30 years. Five of the name
have grad. at Dart., Midd., and Vermont ^colleges. THOMAS,
Cambridge, freeman 1636.
BLOISE, EDMUND, Watertown, was admitted freeman in 1639.
FRANCIS, Cambridge, freeman 1641. The name is spelled Bloss
on Cambridge records. He d. Sept. 1646.
BLOOD, JAMES, Concord 1639, was brother of Colonel Blood,
known in English history for his designs on Charles II ; had sons,
Richard, of Groton, who d. 30 August, 1692 ; Robert, and James.
•JAMES, Concord, son of the preceding, m. Hannah Purchis, dau.
of Oliver Purchis, 1657. He was representative for Sudbury, 1660,
deacon of the church, and died 20 Nov. 1692. Shattuck. RO-
BERT, Lynn 1647, Concord 1653, m. Elizabeth, daughter of Ma-
jor Simon Willard, 8 April, 1653, and had Mary ; Elizabeth ; Sa-
rah ; Simon, b. 5 July, 1662 ; John, b. 29 Oct. 1666 ; Ellen ; James,
b. 1673 ; Ebenezer, b. 1676 ; and four others. He d. 27 Oct. 1692.
BLOTT, ROBERT, Boston, freeman 1635. Snow, Hist. Boston,
118.
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BLOWERS. BOULTER.
BLOWERS, JOHN, Boston 1654, sons, John, b. 1659 ; Tho-
mas, b. 1665.
BLUMFIELD, THOMAS, Newbury 1638, removed to Wood-
bridge, N. J., before 1668. Coffin. He had children, Mary, ; Sarah,
b. 1643 ; John, b. 15 March, 1646 ; Thomas, b. 12 Dec. 1648 ; Na-
thaniel, b. 1651 ; Ezekiel, b. 1653; Ruth, b.l659; Timothy, b. 1664.
BLUNT, WILLIAM, was admitted freeman in 1635. WIL-
LIAM, Andover, came from Ireland a. 1668, d. 1709, ae. 67. He
had 3 sons, William, John, and Hanborough. [Rev. A. Abbot]
William had 2 sons, David, b. 1699 ; and John, who grad. H. C.
1727; ord. at New-Castle, N. H. 20 Dec. 1732; d. 7 Aug. 1748,
m, 41. He is the ancestor of the Blunt families in Portsmouth and
^few-Castle
BOLTON, WILLIAM, Newbury, d. 27 March, 1697.
BOND, JOHN, one of the grantees of Newbury, had sons, John,
b. 10 June, 1650 ; Thomas, b. 1652 ; Joseph, b. 1653. His wife
was Hester Blakely. NICHOLAS, was admitted freeman in 1652.
ROBERT, Connecticut, elected a magistrate in 1659. [SAMP-
SON?] Having preached a sermon not composed by himself, which
being considered highly disreputable, and being discovered, he re-
moved to Barbadoes. i. Hutch. 377. ♦WILLIAM, Watertown,
representative 1689, speaker of the house 1691, one of the council
of safety 1689, d. 15 Dec. 1695.
BONHAM, GEORGE, Plymouth, died 1704, aged a. 93.
BONIGHTON, JOHN, Casco-Bay 1658. RICHARD, Saco,
was appointed assistant of the plantation at Saco, 2 Sept. 1639.
Gov. Sullivan [Hist. Maine] spells his name Benython.
BONNEY, THOMAS,one of the proprietors of Bridgewater 1645.
BOOSY, JAMES, one of the deputies of the first general assem-
bly of Connecticut, 1639. Trumbull, i. Conn. 103.
BOOTFISH, ROBERT, Lynn, freeman 1635, removed to Sand-
wich 1637, where descendants now write the name Bodfish. RO-
BERT, jr., Lynn 1635.
BOOTH, •ROBERT, Exeter 1645, representative of Saco 1659.
He was born a. 1604.
BORDMAN, WILLIAM, Cambridge, freeman 1652. His chil-
dren were Moses, Rebecca, Andrew, Aaron, Francis, Martha, Ma-
ry, William, and Elizabeth. THOMAS, Lynn 1637 ; removed to
Sandwich. Lewis.
BOREMAN, ♦THOMAS, Ipswich, freeman 1635, representative
1636, probably d. 25 May, 1679. WILLIAM, Guilford, Conn. 1650.
BOSWELL, JONATHAN, Cambridge 1632. Holmes, Hist.
Cambridge. This name should probably be Bosworth.
• BOSWORTH, HANIEL, Ipswich, 1648. JOHN, was admitted
freeman in 1634. JONATHAN, Cambridge 1634. •NATHAN-
lEL, representative of Hull 1680. ||ZACCHEUS, Boston, freeman
1636, member of the ar. co. 1650, d. 28 July, 1655. Bellamy Bos-
worth grad. at H. C. 1736.
BOULTER, NATHANIEL, Hampton, was living in 1685, ae.
60 years. Adams, Annals Portsmouth, 397. THOMAS, Wey-
mouth 1661.
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BOULTON. BOYES.
BOULTON, NICHOLAS, Dorchester, admitted member of the
church 1644, freeman 1644. A William Boulton, of Massachusetts,
d. 27 March, 1697.
BOUND, WILLIAM, Salem, admitted freeman 1637. Rev.
Ephraim Bownd was the first minister of the 2d Baptist church in
Boston, ord. 7 Sept. 1743 ; d. 18 June, 1765, ae. 46.
BOURNE, GARRETT, Boston, a. 1640, had a son John born
1643. Snow, History Boston, 118. HENRY, Scituate 1637 ; re-
moved to Barnstable. JOHN, Salem 1637 ; went to Barbadoes
after 1644. Felt, MS letter. HNEHEMIAH, Boston, freeman
1641 ; member of the ar. co. 1638. He was a shipwright ; return-
ed to England, was an officer in Cromwell's army, and attained the
rank of major. His son Nehemiah was b. in 1640. Whitman, MS
letter. RICHARD, of Lynn 1637, according to Lewis, removed
to Sandwich, was a teacher among the Indians at Marshpee ; was
ordained by Eliot and CoUon 1670 ; d. 1685. Morton, Holmes.
Davis. Lord, i. Lempriere, 270. THOMAS, Plymouth, and also
of Marshfield. 2 Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. iv. 248.
BOUTWELL, JAMES, Salem and Lynn, freeman 1638 ; died
a. 1651, leaving children, Samuel, Sarah, and John. John Boutr
well was of Cambridge 1646, and a Thomas Boutwell is mentioned
52 Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. iv. 110.
BOWDIN, or BODIN, AMBROSE, Casco-Bay 1658. His son
Ambrose was there in 1658. WILLIAM, was of Maine in 1642.
BOWDITCH, , Salem. His wife, Sarah, joined the
church, 10 May, 1640. Felt, Annals Salem 174.
BOWDOIN, PETER, (See Baudouin.)
BOWEN, GRIFFITH, Boston, freeman 1639. Snow, Hist,
Boston, 118. Son Peniel, b. 1644. Rev. Penuel Bowen, H. C.
17 — was a minister in Boston.
BOWERS, GEORGE, Cambridge 1644. George, son of Ben-
jamin and Elizabeth Bowers was b. Cambridge, 3, Feb. 1654.
JOHN, Derby, Conn, was son of George Bowers, of Cambridge ;
grad. at H. C. 1649 ; settled in the ministry at Derby. W. Win-
throp, MS Catalogue. MATTHEW, Cambridge, d. 30 Jan. 1645.
BOWINGE, THOMAS, Marblehead 1648.
BOWKER, IIEDMUND, member of the ar. co. 1646, d. March,
1666. ROBERT, Salem, was received as an inhabitant July, 1637.
BOWLES, II JOHN, Roxbury, freeman 1640 ; member of the ar.
<;o. 1645. His wife d. in 1648. This name appears to be Bowelis
in the the colony records. ♦JOHN, Roxbury, perhaps son of the
preceding, grad. at H. C. 1671 ; was elected representative 1689 ;
speaker of the House of Reps. 1690. He d. 30 March, 1691.
BOWMAN, NATHANIEL, Watertown 1687. Son Nathaniel,
b. 1640. Harvard College has eleven of this name on its catalogue.
BOWSTREE, WILLIAM, Concord ; d. 31 Oct. 1642.
BOYDEN, THOMAS, Watertown 1639; freeman 1647, had
sons, Thomas b. 1639 ; Jonathan b. 1651.
BOYES, JOSEPH, Salem ; born a. 1608, was admitted member
of the church, 7 Feb. 1641, and freeman in 1642. An Antipas
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BOYES. BRADFORD.
Boyefl was of Boston in 1665. •MATTHEW, Rowley, freemaiK
1639 ; representative 1641, 1644, 1645 and 1650.
BOYKIM, JARVIS, New-Haven 1639. John Boykim graiL at
JNew-Jersey College, in 181 L
BOYLSTON, THOMAS, was a physician, who, after ohtoining^
the degree of Doctor of Medicine at Oxford, came to N. E. and set*
tied at Brookline in 1635. Thacher, Med. Biog. i. 185. He wa»
lather or grandfather to the celebrated Dr. Zabdiel Boylston, F. R. S^
bora at Brookline 1680, and d. 1 March, 1766, in his 87th year.
BOYNTON, WILLIAM, Rowley, admitted freeman IMO. He
was born in 1605. JOHN, Rowley 1643.
BRACKENBURY, JOHN, Boston, had a son John, b. 1657.
Samuel Brackenbury grad. at H. C. in 1664, and William Bracken-^
bury d. at Maiden in 1668. RICHARD, requested to be made free
1630, and was admitted to the oath 1634. He arrived at Salem
with Gov. Endicott, Sept. 1628 ; was one of the founders of the
church in Beverly, and d. 1684, ». 84. Prince, i. AnncJs, 174.
BRACKETT, ANTHONY, Portsmouth 1640. Belknap, i. Hist.
N. H. 47. Hubbard, Wars with Eastern Indians. •PETER^
Braintree, freeman 1643, representative 1644—1646, 1653, 1660 —
1662, 7 years. Representative for Scarborough 1673 and 1674.
He had sons, John, b. 1641 ; Joseph, b. 1643. *RICHARD, Bos-
ton, freeman 1636; dismissed from Boston church to Brainti-ee
1642, ordained deacon, 21 July, 1642 ; member of the ar. co. 1639;
was the 3d captain of the militia in Braintree ; town cl^k many
years. He died 3 March, 1691, s. 80. Alice, his wife, died in
1690, as. 76. WILLIAM, Pascataqua 1631. Adams, Annals
Portsmouth.
BRADBURY, •THOMAS, Salisbury, freeman 1639, was repre-
sentative in 1651, 7 years. His children were, Wymond, b. 1637^
died in the Isle of Mcevis 1669 ; Thomas b. 28 Jan. 1640 ; Mary,
b. 1642 ; Jane, b. 1645 ; Judith ; Jacob, b. 1647, d. at Barbadoes^
1669; William, b. 1649; Elizabeth, b. 1651 ; John, b. 1654; Ann,
b. 1656, and d. 1659 ; Jabez, b. 1658.
BRADBROOK, JOHN, Newbury, d. 28 June, 1662.
BRADFORD, JOHN, was son of Governour Bradford by his
first wife, and lived in Duxbury and Marshfield, both which he rep-
resented at the Plymouth court. JOSEPH, Plymouth, son of Gov.
B. d. in 1715, in his 85th year, and left a son by the name of Eli-
sha. The catalogues of the N. E., N. Y., and N. J. colleges con-
tain the names of 31 Bradfords, who had grad. at their various insti-
tutions in 1828. ROBERT, Boston, member of the church 1640,
freeman 1642, had a son Moses, b. in 1644, who was a member of
the ar. co. 1677, and died in Boston, 23 March, 1692. JWILLIAM,
Plymouth 1620, one of the first pilgrims, was born at Ansterfield,
a village in the north of England, in 1588 ; came to N. E. 1620 ;
was elected governour of Plymouth colony in 1621, and was in of-
fice more than 30 years. He d. 9 May, 1657, in his 69th year.
His first wife d. in Cape Cod Harbour, Dec. 1620. He m., 14
April, 1623, widow Alice Southworth, who lived till 1670, ©. 80,
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BRADFORD. BRADSTREET.
and had two 8<mi8, William and Joseph. (WILLIAM, Plymouth^
8oa of the preceding, was born 17 June, 1624 ; was assistant 1658^
and deputy governour of Pljrmoath colony many years ; one of Sir
Edmund Andros' council 1687 ; d. 20 Feb. 1704, in his 80th year.
By his first wife he had 4 sons, Israel, E{^raim, Samuel, and John ;
by the 2d, one son, Joseph, who settled in Conn. ; by the 3d, 4 sons,
William, Thomas, David, Hezekiah, He had also three daughters.
Samuel had 3 sons; 1. Perez, H. C. 1713, a member of the council
of Massachusetts ; 2. Gershom, of Kingston ; 3. Gamaliel, a judge
and counsellor,, whose son Gamaliel, a colonel in the revolutionary
army, and representative, and who d. in 1806, was fiither of Alden
Bradford, esq., late secretary of Massachusetts. Alden, iii. Coll. Ep.
246, 247.
BRADLEY, DANIEL, Haverhill, was kitted by the Indians, 13
Aug. 1689. Daniel and Hannah Bradley, and their children Mary
and Hannah, were killed 15 March, 1697. Joseph Bradley, and
his children Joseph and Martha, were killed 11 March, 1697. NA»
THAN, Dorchester, d. 26 July, 1701, ». 70. Eighteen persons
of the name of Bradley have grad. at the N. E. colkges. RICH-
ARD, Boston 1651.
BRADISH, ROBERT, Cambridge 1635. Wife Vashti ; sons»
John, b. 3 Dec. 1645, probably d. at Boston, 12 Oct. 1696 ; Sam-
uel, b. 28 Nov. 1648. Three persons of the name of Bradish had
l^rad. at Harvard College in 1828.
BRADSHAW, ||HUMPHREY, Cambridge, member of the ar.
CO. 1642. Son John b. 24 June, 1656. John Bradshaw lived in
Medford in 1699, and his son, Samuel, was born 29 Aug. 1700. Ben-
jamin Bradshaw, of Stoughton, Ms., was b. 11 Dec. 1741, grad. at
H. C. 1769, d. 25 Jan. 1779. Parkman Bradshaw grad. at H. C.
1780.
BRADSTREET, •DUDLEY, Andover, son of Gov. Bradstreet,
was b. 1648, representative 1677 ; colonel of the militia; one of the
council of safety 1689. [Hutch, i. Mass. 340.] He married Ann
Price 12 Nov. 1673, and had Dudley, b. April, 1678 ; grad. H. C.
1698 ; and Margaret, b. 1680, who d. in infancy. *HUMPHREY,
Ipswich, freeman 1635 ; representative 1635, d. 1655. JOHN, Sa-
lem, died a. 1659. ^SAMUEL, probably the son or a nephew of
Governour Bradstreet, grad. in 1653, at H. C. of which he was
one of the fellows. He was admitted freeman in 1656 ; was repre-
sentative of Andover in 1670. He lived sometime in Boston, and
two of his daughters were b. there in 1663 and 1665. ^ftSIMON,
Cambridge ; Ipswich ; Andover, a. 1645 ; Boston ; Salem, to which
place he removed 18 Sept. 1695. He was born in Horbling, Lin-
colnshire, England, March, 1603 ; was one year at Emmanuel Col-
lege ; arrived at Salem 1630 ; the place where he died 27 March,
1^, at the age of 94. He was elected assistant, March, 1630,
and was 48 years in office ; secretary of the colony, 23 Aug. 1630 to
1643, deputy governour 1673^1678 ; governour 1679 to May, 1666;
and again governour after the imprisonment of Andros, from May,
1689, to May, 1692. His first wife, by whom he had 8 children,
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BRADSTREET. BRENTON.
was Ann, daughter of Gov. Thomas Dudley. She was a woman of
much literary celebrity, and d. 16 Sept. 1672. His 2d wife, daugh-
ter of Emanuel Downing, was living in 1695. SIMON, minister
of New-London, son of the preceding, graduated at H. C. 1660 ; was
ordained 5 Oct. 1670, d. 1685, aged a. 45.
BRAGDEN, ARTHUR, Kittery 1652, was born a. 1597. This
name still exists in Maine.
BRAKIN, WILLIAM, Pascataqua 1631.
BRANCH, WILLIAM, admitted freeman 1648.
BRAND, BENJAMIN, Massachusetts, came to N. E. in 1630,
and was admitted freeman 18 May, 1631.
BRANDISH, JOHN, admitted freeman in 1635.
BRANKER, JOHN, was admited freeman in 1632.
BRANSON, GEORGE, Masssachusetts, k. by a buU, 25 July,
1657. Coffin.
BRATCHER, AUSTIN, died on Cradock's plantation, and his
death was supposed to have been caused by violence, and a jury
was empanelled to inquire into the cause of it.
BRATTLE, ||*THOMAS, Boston 1657 ; was probably made
freeman 1657 ; (see Thomas Battle) member of the ar. co. 1672 ;
representative 1671 and 1672 for Lancaster, 1678 and 1679 for
Concord. His son Thomas, b. at Boston, 5 Sept. 1657 ; grad. at
H. C. 1676, was treasurer of the college ; and his son William, b>
in 1662, grad. at H. C. 1680, was the learned minister of Cam-
bridge, a fellow of the Royal Society in England and d. 15 March,
1717, ae. 54.
BRAY, JOHN, was a ship-wright at Kittery, 1663. His daugh-
^r married William Pepperell, father of Sir William Pepperell.
BRAYBROOK, JOHN, Watertown 1640, had sons, John. b.
1642; Thomas, b. 1643. WILLIAM, Lynn, removed to Sand-
wich 1637. Lewis.
BRECK, EDWARD, Dorchester, a member of the church in
1636; admitted freeman 1639. His son. Captain John Breck,.was
father of Rev. Robert Breck, of Marlborough, who was born in Dor-
chester, 7 Dec. 1682, died 6 Jan. 1731. Sprague, Hist. Disc. 79.
ROBERT, Boston, freeman 1649, probably son of Edward. His
son Robert was b. 1658.
BREED, ALLEN, Lynn, born 1601, was one of the grantees
named in the Indian deed of South-Hampton, L. I. 1640. He died
at Lynn, 17 March, 1691. His children were Allen^ Timothy, Jo-
seph, and John. Lewis. JOHN, Lynn 1640, died 1678. Ibid.
BREEDEN, THOMAS, Boston 1665. 2 Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc.
viii. 105.
BRENTON, ♦^WILLIAM, Boston, admitted freeman 1634,
representative 1635. It appears that he went to Rhode-Island,
where he was president between 1647 and 1663, and governour in
1666, 1667, and 1668. He died at Newport 1674. To him, it is
not improbable, was granted, a. 1658, the large and beautiful tract
of land on Merrimack River, in N. H., long known by the natne of
" Brenton's Farm," and now constituting the township of Litchfield.
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BRENTON. BRIDGE.
Several of his descendants held important offices in R.- L colonj.
Those who were living at the period of the revolution adhered to
the royal government. Jahleel Brenton, a late admiral in the Brit-
ish navy, was born in Newport, and another of the same name re-
ceived the order of knighthood about 1810.
BRETT, WILLIAM, one of the proprietors of Bridgewater 1645,
was representative in 1661 at Plymouth court.
BREWER, DANIEL, Roxbury, freeman 1634, d. 9 Jan. 1689,
». 84. His son Nathaniel, b. 1635, d. 26 Feb. 1693. DANIEL,
minister of West-Springfield, son of Daniel Brewer, of Roxbury,
grad. at H. C. 1687, was ord. 16 May, 1694 ; d. 5 Nov. 1733, ».
66. His wife whom he m. 23 Aug. 1699, was Catharine Chauncy,
of Northampton. She d. 15 May, 1754, ». 78. They had 8 chil-
dren. JOHN, Cambridge 1644, had a daughter Hannah, by Ann,
his wife, b. in 1644. *OBADIAH, Gloucester, representative 1647
— 1649, 3 years. This name may be Obadiah Bruen, who, it ap-
pears, was an early preacher at Gloucester. THOMAS admitted
freeman 1652.
BREWSTER, JONATHAN, Plymouth, 1623, son of elder Wil-
liam Brewster, removed to New-London, thence to Norwich, Conn.,
and died 1659. Wood, 48. JOHN, Portsmouth, 1665. There
have been many families of the name in Portsmouth. LOVE, Ply-
mouth 1623, afterwards of Duxbury, was son of Elder William Brew-
ster. NATHANIEL, grad. in the first class of H. C. 1642;
went to England, and was settled in the ministry at Norfolk, and of
good report : [Hutchinson, Hist. Mass. i. 107.] Received from
Dublin the degree of Bachelor of Divinity ; returned to America,
and settled in 1656, at Brookhaven, L. I. ; and died in 1690, leav-
ing 3 sons, John, Timothy, and Daniel, whose descendants are still
respectable on Long Island. Hon. Silas Wood, MS letter. WIL-
LIAM, Plymouth 1620. One of the first pilgrims, and a ruling el-
der in the church. He died 16 April, 1644, in his 84th year. His
children were Patience, Fear, Love, Wrestling, Jonathan, Lucre-
tia, William, Mary. Davis, Morton's N. E. Memo. Allen, Biog.
Diet.
BRIDEMORE, || , member of the ar. co. 1639.
BRIDGE, EDWARD, Roxbury, freeman 1639, d. 20 Dec. 1683,
ae. 82. ♦JOHN, Cambridge 1632 ; freeman 1635, representative
1637. Winthrop, ii. N. E. 347. MATTHEW, Cambridge, son cf
the preceding, member of the ar. co. 1643, m. Anna, daughter of
Nicholas Danforth, and had children, John, b. 15 June, 1645; An-
na ; Martha, 1648 ; Matthew, b. 5 May, 1650 ; Samuel, b. 17 Feb.
1653 ; Thomas, b. 1 June, 1656 ; Elizabeth. Ten of the name of
Bridge are on the Harvard catalogue ^ five of whom were clergymen.
IITHOMAS, Cambridge, 1648, was member of the ar. co. 1643.
His wife was Deborah. THOMAS, minister of the first church in
Boston, was born at Hackney, in England, in 1657 ; came to Amerir
ca in 1682 ; ord. 10 May, 1705 ; died 26 Sept. 1715, ©. 58. WIL-
LIAM, Charlestown, freeman 1647. His sons Samuel and Peter
were born in 1643 and 1647, the latter at Boston.
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BRIDGES. BiRlSCOE.
BRIDGES, J*ROBERT, Lynn, freeman 1641, representative
1644; speaker of the House 1646; assistant 1647 to 1656. His
house was burnt down in April, 1648. He d. in 1656. Savage,- 5i.
Winthrop, 53, 237. EDMUND, Lynn, 1637, was admitted free-
man 1639, d. 1686. His sons were John and Josiah. Lewis.
BRIDGHAM, ||HENRY, Dorchester 1641, freeman 1643; Bos-
ton ; member of the ar. co. 1644 ; captain ; constable 1653. Snow«
Hist. Boston, 137. His sons were John, b. 1645 ; Joseph, b. 1651 ;
Benja. b. 1654 ; Hopestill, 1658 ; Samuel, b. in 1660 ; Nathaniel,
b. 1662 ; James, b. 1664. ♦JOSEPH, representative in 1690 of
Northampton, was probably son of the preceding. ♦SEBASTIAN,
Cambridge, 1636 ; removed to RoWiey, where he was captain of the
military band 1644 ; and representative 1046 and 1647. John, his
son, grad. at H. C. 1669. Johnson, Hist. N. E., 193. Coffin, MS
letter.
BRIDGMAN, JAMES, Northampton 1654. JOHN, Salem d.
a. 1655.
BRIGDEN, THOMAS, Charlestown, was admitted freeman
1636, and d. 20 June, 1668. ZECHARIAH, who grad. at H. C.
1657, was a preacher at Stonington, Conn, and d. 1663. W. Win-
thtop, MS Catalogue.
BRIGGS, CLEMENT, Plytnouth 1623; Weymotith 1^3; had
sons, Thomas, Jona., David, Clement, born from 1632 to 1642.
JOHN, Lynn ; removed to Sandwich 1637. Lewis. WILLIAM,
Boston 1642.
BRIGHAM, ♦JOHN, Marlborough ; reptesentative 1689, 96h of
Mr. Brigham, of Sudbury, who m. Mercy Hurd. Nine of the name,
and some of them his descendants, had grad. in N. E. 1826.
THOMAS, Cambridge 1636, freeman 1637, afterwards of Water-
town and Sudbury. His s6n John, by Mercie his wife, was b. 9
March, 1644.
BRIGHT, FRANCIS, a puritin minister, who arrived in N. E,
1629; remained in Charlestown' about a year, and returned to Eng-
land. HENRY, Charlestowh, 1632 ; Watertown 1637, had several
children, and d. 14 Sept. 1673, ae. 109. Henry Bright, probably a
descendant, grad. at H. C. 1770, and the family still remains at
Watertown and its Vicinty. HENRY, jr. Watertown, 1642. John,
son of Henry Bright, was b. 14 May, 1641.
BRIMSMEAD, JOHN, Dorchester, freeman 1638, Charlestown
1640. His son John b. 1640. WILLIAM, the first minister of
Marlborough, was member of the class at Harv. Coll. which grad. in
1648, but left college in 1647, without his degree. He first preach-
ed at Plymouth ; went to Marlborough as early as 1660, but was not
ordained until 3 Oct. 1666. He d. July 3, 1701, having never been
married. Allen, Biog. Diet. 112.
BRINLEY, FRANCIS, Rhode-Island 1651, wash, in Oct. 1633,
was an assistant in 1672, and living in 1 709. 1 Coll.* Ms. Hist. Soc. 252.
BRISCOE, DANIEL, freeman 1642. There was a Briscoe, u
fanner, who lived in Watertown 1644. Hutch, i. Hist. Mass. 377.
JOSEPH, Boston, was drotvned 1 Jan. 1658. Son Joseph b. 1658.
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I«Lm€QE. BROOKS.
Boston Records. NATHAJVIEL, Watertown, 1642, was perhaps
the usher or tutor of Harvard College, wJiile under Nathaniel Eaton
Winthrop, i. Hist. N. E. 308. WILLIAM, freeman, X641, was a
Hl^inber of the church in Boston.
BRISTOW, JOHN^ Cambridge 1642. RICHARD, Guilford,
Conn. 1650.
BRITTERIBGE, RICHARD, Plymouth, one of the first pil-
grims, d. 21 Oec. 1620.
BRITTON, JAMES, Woburn, d. 3 May, 1655.
BtROCK, iOHN^ minister of Reading, was born at Stradbrook,
Bng. 1620 : came to N. E. 1637 ; grad. at H. C. 1646 ; ord. 13 No?.
1662 ; Allen say^ 1668 ; d. 18 June, 1688, ae. 68. He may be the
John Broclt who was admitted freeman in 1642. RICHARD,
Watertown, d. 24 Oct. 1673. WILLIAM, Salem 1639. W.
Gibbs.
BROCKLEBANK, SAMUEL, Rowley, a captain, was born in
1628, and was killed in battle with the Indians, 14 April, 1676, e.
46, leaving children, Samuel, Hannah, Mary, Elizabeth, Sarah, and
Joseph.
BROCKHOLT, ANTHONY, one of Sir Edmund Andros' coun-
cil, and entrusted by him with the command of the forts in the east^
era country in 1688. Hutchinson, i. Hist. Mass. 331.
BROOKS, CALEB, Concord, son of Capt. Thomas Br^ks, was
admitted freeman in 1654, removed, to Medford 1672, and d. 29»
July, 1«96. He m. (1) Susanna Atkinson 1660, who died 1668,
and had 4 daughters ; (2) Ann, by whom he had Ebenezer, b. in
1670^ the ancestor of Governour John Brooks, and Samuel, ances-
tor of Hon. Peter C. Brooks. Shattuck, MS Hist. Concord. GER-
SHOM, Concord, brother of the preceding, m. Hannah Eckels 1665,
and had Joseph, Daniel, and 4 daughters. Ibid. GILBERT and
WILLIAM, were of Scituate between 1633 and 1657. HENRY,
Concord, was probably the freeman in 1638 under the name of
Brooky Uiuless the name of Mr. Brock is twt mistaken for Mr. Brook,
who is represented in Allen's Hist of Chelmsford as preaching at
Wenbam in 1654. Henry Brooks had a son Joseph, born in 1641.
ilUGJI, Woburn, d. 1683, leaving sons John, Timothy, and Isaac.
There was a John Brooks of Woburn, whp was admitted freeman in
1651, whose son John was b. in 1653. JOSHUA, Concord, son of
Capt Thomas Brooks^ was admitted freeman in 1652, m. Hannah
Mason of Watertown, and had, Noah, b. 1655 ; Daniel, b. 1663, the
great-grandfather of the Hon. Eleazar Brooks, of Lincoln ; (See Al-
len's Biog. Diet.) Thomas, b. 1666; Joseph; Job; Hugh, and two
daughters. Shattuck, MS Hist. Concord. RICHARD, Lynn,
1637, removed to East-Hampton, L. I. where he. was one of the firai
settlers 1650w *THOMAS, Concord, freeman 1636, was a captain,
Mid representative 1642, seven years, and d. 22 May, 1667, leaving
sons, Joshua, Calebs, and Gershom already poticed, Grace, his^
wife d. 12 itay,. 1664. Nineteen of the ns^me had grad. at th^ N».,
E. •oU^es in 1828.
BROOME, GEORGE, BoetiOQ, d. in F^b. 1662.
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BROUGHTON. BROWN.
BROUGHTON, THOMAS, Watertown 1643, Boston 1662,
where his sons Thomas and Nathaniel were born. He d. 12 Nov.
1760, ae. 87. Thomas d. at Boston, 4 Dec. 1702. There was a
John BroughtoH of Northampton in 1653, and a George Broughton
is mentioned by Hubbard, Indian Wars, as of Salmon-Falls River
in 1675.
BROWN, ABRAHAM, Watertown, freeman 1632, had sons,
Jonathan and Abraham, b. in 1635 and 1639. His wife was Lydia.
The name of Brown is frequently written in ancient records with
the addition of the e, and several families, as those in Salem, have
ever retained this orthography. The number of graduates at the col-
leges of N. E., N. J., and Union in N. Y. of this name, in 1828, wa»
more than 100, of whom 22 had been clergymen. CHAD, went
from Massachusetts to Rhode-Island, in 1636, and was ordained
over the Baptist church as successor of Rev. Roger Williams in
1642. His grandson, James Brown, was born in Providence, and
was minister of the same church. From him are descended the re-
spectable families of Browns in R. I. Four of the grandsons of
James have been distinguished patrons of Brown University, viz.
Nicholas, who d. 1791, 8B. 62 ; Joseph LL. D., who d. Dec. 1785 ;
John, and Moses. Benedict, i. Hist. Baptists, 477. CHARLES,
Rowley, before 1652. EDMUND, the first minister of Sudbury,
came over in 1637, was admitted freeman 1640, was ordained in
August, 1640, and d. 22 June, 1677. EDMUND, Dorchester,
freeman 1650, had a son Samuel b. in 1661. EDWARD, Salem,
perhaps the fi-eeman of 1635, died a. 1659. EDWARD, Ipswich,
freman 1641. Joseph Brown was of Ipswich in 1665. FRANCIS,
New-Haven 1639, had sons, Eleazar, Samuel, Ebenezer and John.
FRANCIS, Newbury 1665. GEORGE, a carpenter of Newbury
1638, was admitted freeman 1640, d. 1 April, 1642. ♦GEORGE,
Haverhill, a lieutenant, was a representative in 1672, 1675 and
1680. HENRY, a proprietor of Salisbury, was b. 1615. HUGH,
@alem 1637, perhaps afterwards, of Boston, where several sons of
Hugh Brown were b, before 1653. Isaac, Newbury, d. 3 Jan. 1675,
8B. 36, JACOB, was one of the proprietors of Billerica 1659. There
was subsequently a George Brown there, the ancestor of the present
families of that name in Billerica. JAMES, the son of Joseph Brown,
came from Southampton in England, and was one of the first settlers
of Newbury. Coffin. JAMES, Boston, freeman 1636, was member of
the ar. co. 1643. His son James was b. 1635. || JAMES, Charles*
town, freeman 1634, member of the ar. co. 1639, had sons, John,
b. 1637 ; James ; James, 2d, b. 1647 ; Nathaniel, b. 1648. JAMES,
Swanzey, son of John Brown, of Plymouth, was elected assistant
1665. Davis, Morton's Memo. 297. JAMES, one of Mather's
third classis of ministers, was the minister of Swanzey afler 1662.
JOHN, Salem, one of the patentees of Massachusetts, and one of
the first assistants of the company, came over in 1629, but returned
the next year to England, from whence he again came to this coun-
try. Morton. Mather. Prince. Bentley. JOHN, an assistant of
Plymouth colony, to which office he was elected 17 years from 1636,
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4, (probably at Rehoboth) in 1666. Davis, Morton's Memo. 163,
.164. JOHN, an elder of the church in Salem, was probably the
freeman of 1638. He d. 1685. John and James, his sons, ware
baptized in 1638 and 1640. JOHN, Watertown, freeman 1634, had
a son John, b. 1636. JOHN, Ipswich, 1648. ♦JOHN, Reading,
was b. 1634, a captain, freeman 1679, representative in 1679, 1680,
1682, and 1683, m. for his 2d wife, Elizabeth, widow of Rev. Joseph
Emerson, of Mendon. ♦NATHANIEL, Salisbury, freeman 1685,
representative 1691. ♦NICHOLAS, Lynn, freeman 1638, repre-
sentative 1641, afterwards removed to Reading. His son Thomas
of Lynn 1650, d. 28 Aug. 1693, leaving sons, Thomas and Joseph.
OBADIAH, perhaps Bruen of Gloucester, was admitted freeman
in 1642. (See Brewer and Bruen.) PETER, one of the first pil-
grims at Plymouth 1620. ♦RICHARD, a ruling elder of the
church of Watertown, came over 1630, freman 1631, representative
at the first general court. May, 1634, and from 1635 to 1639, and
1647 to 1655, excepting 1653. Savage, i. Winthrop, 58. RICH-
ARD, Newbury 1635, brother of George Brown, died a. 1661. He
had sons, Joshua, b. 10 April, 1642 ; Caleb, b. 1645 ; Richard, b.
18 Feb. 1651 ; Edmund, b. 17 July, 1654. Richard had an only
son, Rev. Richard Brown, H. C. 1697, the minister of Reading, who
d. 29 Oct. 1732, ae. 57. ROBERT, Cambridge, freeman. JSAM-
UEL, brother of John Browne, of Salem, was one of the patentees
■of Massachusetts, and came over in 1629. He was elected 30 April,
1629, by the Mass. company in London, one of Gov. Endicott's
council. Morton, 76. Prince, i. Annals, 185. ♦SAMUEL, Sa-
lem, representative 1675. THOMAS, one of the proprietors of
Newbury, 1638, freeman 1639, d. 1686. THOMAS, Concord
1640, removed to Cambridge. He had sons Thomas, town clerk
of Concord, who. d. 4 April, 1718, ae. 67; and Boaz, b. 1640, who
removed from Concord to Stow, 1690, Shattuck, MS Hist. Con-
cord. WILLIAM, Sudbury 1643. His son Thomas was b. 1644.
f*WILLIAM, a merchant of Salem, freeman 1641. He was born
in England, 1 March, 1608 ; representative 1654 ; 1659 and 1666 ;
assistant 1680—1683 ; one of Sir Edmund Andros' council 1687 ;
d. 20 Jan. 1688, ae. 80. Hutchinson [i. Hist. Mass., 36] mistakes
in considering him as living in 1691. Two of his sons were distin-
guished ; William and Joseph ; the last of whom grad. 1666, at H.
C. where he had a fellowship, which he resigned 15 Sept. 1673 ;
and died 9 May, 1678; having a short time before received a
call to settle at Charlestown. J^WILLIAM, Salem, son of the
preceding, born 14 April, 1639 ; freeman 1665 ; representative 1680 ;
one of the council of safety, 1689; counsellor under the charter of
William and Mary ; d. 14 Feb., 1716, », 77. His grandson, Hon.
William Browne, grad. at H. C. 1727, and d. 27 April, 1763, ae. 54.
Hon. William Browne, a greaf-grandson, grad. at H. C. 1755;. was
judge of the sup. court of Mass., left the country in 1775 — 6, and
was afterwards governour of Bermuda. WILLIAM, freeman 1649,
perhaps of Salisbury. WILLIAM, freeman 1660. WILLIAM,
Gloucester, was one of the selectmen in 1647.
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BROWNING, BULKLEY.
BROWNING, THOMAS, Salem, freeman 1637, was b.l587;
d. 1671. Felt,. MS Aftflala. MALACHI, d. at Boston, 97 Nm.
1658.
BRU£N» or BROWN, QBADIAB, was of Gloucester m 16^,
fuid: appears to kare bc^B a preacher there, and probably went, to
Coaneotiottt. TruiHibuU, i. 249.
ARUCY, , the niinister of Branfetd, Cou. before the
j^e^t 1660. Mather, i. Magnalia, 214, 536.
BRYANT, JOHN, Scituate, a. 1640. WilUa«i Jir^m d. M
Boston in 1697.
BRYAN, ALEXANDER, Coaneetkait^ was eleeted afisistsbiil m
166^; Mather says 166%
BRYER, RICHARD, Newbuiy 1665.
BUCK, ISAAC, Scituate, was the 2d town clerk in th«t place^
a Coll. Mass. Hist. Soe. x. Index. JAMES, Hingham 1638.
ROGER, Cambridge 1643, had sons, John, b. 1644; Ephraim, k
26 July, 1646. His daughter Mary was b. 163a
BUCKLAND, THOMAS, Massachusetts, was admitted freeman
in 1635. WILLIAM, Hingham 1635.
BUCKMINSTER, JAMES, was one of the proprietors of Sud.
bvry in 164a Shattuck. THOMAS, written Suckmaster in coU
eny records, came frooa some part of Wales to N. E. [Alden, ii.
Coll. 180] and was made free 1645 ; died at Boston, 28 Sept., 1658.
lie had several sous, of whom were, perhaps, Zachariah, John, and
Joseph, who w^e living in Boeton, or Brookline, in 1660. Joseph;
the son of Jos^>h, was b. 1666, and was one of the earliest settles
of Framingham, and died there, se. 84. His son. Colonel Joseph,,
who was Wn in 1697, d. 1780 ; was father of Rev. Joseph, of Rut-
land, Ms., who grad. at H. C. 1739 ; grandfather of Rev. Joseph,
D. D., of Portsmouth, N. H., Y. C. 1770; whose son. Rev. Josepb
Stevens Buckminster, H. C. 1800, was the minister of Brattk-Streei
church in Boston.
BUCKINGHAM, THOMAS, New-Haven 1639. Rev. Thomas
Buckingham, according to a MS note of Mr. Savage, was minister of
Saybrook in 1669. Rev. Thomas Buckingham, H. C. 1690, and
Rev. Stephen Buckingham, H. C. 1693, were the ministers of
Hartford and Norwalk, Conn.
BUCKNAM, WILLIAM, Cbarlestown 1647. John Bucknan
was ef Boston in 1653.
BUFFUM, JOSHUA, Salem 1658 ; went to England 1659. Hs
had a son Joseph.
BUGBY, RICHARD, freeman 1631. Samuel and Francis
Bugbee grad. at Brown and Yale Colleges in 1802 and 1818. ED-
WARD, Roxbury 1642, Edward and John Bugby died at Boston
1703.
BULGAR, RICHARD, Boston, freeman 1631. Belknap, i.
Hist. N. H. 36. He was a member of Boston church.
BULFINCH, JOHN, Salem, was admitted freeman 1641, ro^
moved from Salem.
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BUIiKLEY, lBDMUNtD,1r<»ein«LYi ldS5. Tbk Bame shouM per-
haps be Edward. BDWARD, ^arly admitted a member of Bos*-
t6n church, was son of Rev. P^ter Bdlkley. He was several years the
minister of Marshfield, and sacceeded his father at Concord, a.
1659. He died Hi Chelmsford, 2 Jun. W96, and was buried at
Concord. GERSHOM, minister of New-London, son df Rev.
Petefr, grad. H. C. 1655; matried Sarah' daughter of President
Chauncv, 26 Oct. 1659 ; settled at New-London, from whence ^ht
remove' a. 1666, and d. 1713, se. 78. His son Rev. John, H. C.
1699, was the minister of Coldhesfer, Conn., and the ikther ofHhe
Hon. John Bulkley, a physician, lawyer, and judge of the' Superiour
court of Colmecticut. JOHN, flrtH of Rev. Peter, was one of the
fest T6!ass df graduates at H. G. ^1642, and the third named in 'the
emtalogne. He went to England, and settled at Fordham, from
wUence he ^as ejected, a. 1662 ; retired to Wapping, ui the suburbs
of London, and practised physick with good success. Calamy, ii.
Account, 811. jPEl^ER, the 'first minister of Concord, was ♦son
of Edward BuHtley, D. D., andwasborn at Woodhill, in 'Bedford-
dhire, England, 81 Jan. 1583; was educated at^^t. John's College,
Cambridge; cartle to N. E. 1635; settled at 'Cdncord, over the
^tidrch foritied '5 July^ 1686, with Rev. John Jones us a colleague
or assistant, and d.'9 March, 1659,-86. 76. His Idt wife was dau^h«
ter of 'Mr. Thdmas Allen, of Gdldington, by whom he 'had 11 chil-
dren ; hiiB 2d was a dau. of Sir Richard Chit wood, by whom he had
3 sons and one daughter.. The names of his children, so far as
known, were Edward, John, Thomas, Eleazar, GiSlrshom, Peter,
Bor6th)^, 'Eifzabeth. J*PETER, Concord, was one of 'the young-
est sons of the preceding, arid was born at Cbncotd, 1^ Aug. I64B,
[Shattuck] grad. 1660, at Harv. College, of which he was* feHow.
He was made a freeman 1670 ; was a captain and major ; repretSen-
lative 1678—1676; speaker of the House, assistant 1677—1684,
8 years'; s^nt to England 1676, as agent, to -answer complaints
iaide by the^heirs of 'Gdfges and Mason. He d. 24 May, '1688, in
his 45th year. His children w^re Edward, b. 18 March, 1668 ; Jo-
seph b. 7 Oct. 1670; John b. 10 July, 1673; Rebecca b. 1681.
WILLIAM, an inhabitaiit of Ipswich in 1648. dTHOM AS, Con-
cord, son of Rev. Peter, was admitted freeman in 1688 ; removed
in 1644 to Fairfield with Rev. John Jones, whose daughter' he mar-
ried. He died a. 1652. Shattuck. A Thomas Bulkley Was of
Rowley in 1648. ^
BULL, §HENRY, Boston, fi'e^mtfn 1637, was born in South
Wales, in 1609 ; came to N. E. abdut 1636 ; removed to R. I. and
was one of the original purchasers of Aquidneck, now Rhode-Island.
He settled at Newport 1688 ; was governour of the colony in 1685,
and again in 1689. He died in 1^3, as. 84. Ldrd, ii. Lempri6re's
Biog. Didt. Addenda. WILLIAM, Cambridge 1644, had chil-
dren, Rebecca, b. 1644 ; John, b. 9 March, 1647 ; Mary ; William,
b. 1652 ; Samuel, b. 1654 ; Elisha, b. 1667. The name of his wife
W4s Blyth.
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BULtARD. BURNAP.
BULLARD, BENJAMIN, was a proprietor of Watertown, a.
1644. GEORGE, Watertown, freeman 1641. His wife d. 1639.
His son Jacob, by another wife, was b. 1642. JOHN, Dedham,
freeman 1640, had a son Joseph, b. in 1643. WILLIAM, Cam-
bridge, admitted freeman 1640, m. Mary, daughter of Francis
Griswold.
BULLEN, SAMUEL, Dedham, freeman 1641, whose son Sam-
uel was b. in 1644.
BULLIVANT, BENJAMIN, was physician in Boston in 1688.
BULLOCK, HENRY, Salem, died a. 1657. RICHARD, was
admitted freeman 1646.
BUMPUS, EDWARD, Plymouth 1623, Duxbury 1645.
BUMSTEAD, EDWARD, Boston, freeman 1640, had a son Jo-
seph, b. 1653. IITHOMAS, Boston, member of the ar. co. 1647, d.
1677. Savage, ii. Winth. N. E. 203. Son Gerard, b. at Roxbury,
1643.
BUNKER, GEORGE, Charlestown, freeman 1634 ; disarmed in
1637 ; died a. 1658. Savage i. Winth. N. E. 248. BENJAMIN,
minister of Maiden, son of preceding, grad. at H. C. 1658 ; died
3 Feb. 1670. John Bunker, d. at Maiden, 10 Sept. 1672.
BURBANK, JOHN, Rowley, freeman 1640. There had been
seven graduates of the name at the N. E. Colleges in 1826.
BURCHAM, EDWARD, Lynn 1636, was admitted freeman
1638, was clerk of the writs. || WILLIAM, member of the ar. co.
1644.
BURCHER, EDWARD, Plymouth 1623.
BURDEN, GEORGE, Boston, a shoemaker, was a member of the
church 1636, freeman 1637 : disarmed 1637. Sons, Thomas, b.
1637 ; Elisha, b. 1638 ; Ezekiel, b. 1641. This name exists in
Pennsylvania.
BURDITT, GEORGE, a minister, came from England about
1635, in which year he was admitted freeman ; became a member
of the church at Salem, where he preached more than a year, and
received grants of land in 1635 and 1637 ; removed to Dover, a,
1637, from thence to Maine, and finally returned, it is supposed, to-
England. ROBERT, Maiden, d. 16 June, 1667.
BURDSALL, HENRY, freeman 1638, was admitted member of
the church in Salem 1636.
BURGATT, PETER, Lynn 1638. Lewis. (See Busqatt.)
BURGE, THOMAS, Lynn; removed to Sandwich 1637. Lewis.
BURGES, JAMES, Boston, died 27 Nov. 1690. He had sons,
John, b. 1654 ; Benja., b. 1655. RICHARD, was of York 1660.
Coffin.
BURGESS, THOMAS, Concord 1666.
BURNHAM, JOHN, Ipswich 1638. ROBERT, Boston, had a
son Robert, b. 1647. A Robert' Burnham was of New-Hampshire
in 1665. ,*THOMAS, Ipswich, was b. in 1617, freeman 1671 ;
representative 1684, d. June 1694.
BURNAP, ISAAC, Reading, d. 18 Sept. 1667: He was ances-
tor of Rev. Jacob Burnap, D. D., of Merrimack, N. H., who d. 26
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BURNAP. . BURRILL.
Dec. 1821, ae. 75, two of whose sons have grad. at Harv. College.
ROBERT, Roxbury 1642.
BURNELL, WILLIAM, Boston, had a son John, b. 1644.
BURR, JEHU, Springfield 1638, was a carpenter, and among
the first settlers. Sprague, Hist. Disc. 13, 15. JOHN, Ipswich
1665. 2 Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. viii. 106. JOHN, son of Rev. Jo-
nathan Burr, settled in Fairfield, Conn. JONA THAN, minister
of Dorchester, was born at Redgrave, in Suffolk, England, a. 1604.
He came to N. E. 1639, with his wife and 3 children ; was settled
ascoUeague with Rev. Richard Mather, in Feb. 1640; d. August,
1641, SB. 37. His widow, Frances, m. Hon. Richard Dummer, of
Newbury, where she d. 19 Nov. 1682, ». 70. His sons were Jona«
than, John, and Simon. Peter Burr, H. C. 1690, a judge of the
supreme court of Conn, and Samuel Burr, H. C. 1697, of Charles-
town, were his grandsons. Rev. Isaac Burr, Y. C. 1717, was son
of Judge Peter Burr, and father to Rev. Aaron Burr, the learned
president of New-Jersey College. Vice-Pres. Aaron Burr is son of
President Burr. Rev. Dr. Harris, MS letter. Savage, ii. Winth.
N. E. 22. JONATHAN, son of the preceding, was born in Eng-
land ; grad. at H. C. 1651 ; settled as a physician at Hingham, and,
according to Rev. Dr. Harris, [MS letter to me] died in Canada,
1690 ; although Mr. Savage [ii. Winth. N. E. 22] says he d. at Bristol,
England, 25 July, 1691 , ae. 56. Some mistake, however, is appre-
hended, in the last date, as the same place, year, month, and day
are assigned by Calamy [ii. Account, 610] for the death of Dr. Icha-
bod Chauncy, a class-mate with Mr. Burr. Perhaps a reliance on
Winthrop's MS Catalogue of H. C. may have caused so extraordi-
nary a coincidence. SIMON, a brother of the preceding, settled
in Hingham, a. the year 1646. Harris. Lincoln.
BURRAGE, JOHN, Charlestown, freeman 1642, d. 1 Jan.
1678. Another John Burrage d. at Charlestown 18 Jan. 1681.
BURRILL, GEORGE, came to Lynn soon after its settlement,
was one of the most wealthy farmers of the place, died in 1653,
leaving 3 sons, George, of Boston, who d. 5 July, 1698 ; Francis, b.
1626, d. 10 Nov. 1704, ae. 78 ; John. Lewis, MS Hist. Lynn. ♦JOHN,
son of the preceding, born 1631 ; lived in Lynn ; representative
1691 ; d. 24 April, 1703, m. 72. By Lois, his wife, he had 10
children ; 1. John, b. 15 Oct. 1658 ; 21 times elected representa-
tive of Lynn ; was speaker of the House several years ; 30 years
town clerk ; and counsellor at the time of his death, 10 Dec. 1726,
«. 63, leaving no children ; 2. Sarah ; 3. Thomas, b. 7 Jan. 1663 ;
4. Anna ; 5. Theophilus ; 6. Lois ; 7. Samuel, b. 20 April, 1674 ,'
8. Mary ; 9. Ruth ; 10. Ebenezer, b. 1679 ; representative 6 years
from Lynn ; counsellor 1731 and 1746 ; d. Sept. 6, 1761, ae. 82.
His wife was Martha Farrington, by whom he had 10 children, of
whom were Ebenezer, b. 6 Feb. 1702 ; d. 20 May, 1778, ae. 76 f
town clerk 17 years, and representative 12 years ; Theophilus, a
magistrate, b. 21 May, 1709 ; and Samuel, b. 1 April, 1717 ; rep-
resentative from Lynn five times. The last named Ebenezer m.
Mary Mansfield, and had 11 cl^ildren, of whom were John, b. 29
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BPRBJLL. BUSS.
Aug. 1726 ; m. Anna Thon^son, had 9 children, and d. 14 Dec
1793, ae. 67 ; James, b. 1 1 March, 1744 ; removed to Providence,
and whose son, Hon. James, LL. D., a grad. of Brown Uuaiv. in
1788, and a senator in Congress, died at Washington city in 1820,
s. 46. Thompson Burrill, esq., son of John, was h. 30 April, 1764,
and has been frequently a representative from Lynn. Lewis, MS
Hist. Lynn.
BURROUGHS, GEORGE, a minister, who preached at
Wells, and other places, grad. at H. C. 1670, was one of the victims
at Salem in the witch crdl infatuation ; and was executed 19 Aug.
1692. JOHN, Salem, 1637, perhaps the aiijcestor of the preceding.
John Dunton, in his journal, mentions a Mr. Burrou^ra of Boston
in 1686.
BURSLEY, *JOHN, or, as it is spelled in the colony records,
Burslin, was one of the early, if not one of the first, settlers of Wey-
mouth. He was admitted free in 1631, and chosen representative
85 March, 1636. He may be the same who, with Jel&ey, was
assessed i£2 in 1628, for expenses in the campaign against Morton.
Savage, i. Winth. N. E. 44. One of this name was of Exet^ in
1643 and 1645.
BURT, GEORGE, Lynn 1635, d. 2 Nov. 1661, leaving sons,
George, Hugh, and Edward. Lewis. HENRY, Northampton, free-
man 1648, one of the early settlers. David Burt, an early settler
there, had 15 children. The late Rev. Federal Burt, of Durham,
N. H., born at Southampton, Ms., 4 March, 1789, was probably a
descendant. HUGH, of Lynn and Salem, brother of George Burt,
was born a. 1591 and d. 1650. Lewis.
BURTON, BONIFACE, Lynn, freeman 1635 ; d. 13 June,
1669, ». 113 years. Hutchinson, i. Mass., 246. Lewis. JOHN,
Salem 1637 ; died 1684. Felt, MS letters.
BUSBY, IIABRAHAM, freeman 1650, was member of the »r.
00. 1647. NICHOLAS, Boston 1646, d. 28 August, 1657.
BUSGAT, PETER, Lynn 1638. Lewis.
BUSH, JOHN, Cambridge 1654. Sons, Joseph, b. 16 Aug.
1654 ; Daniel, b. 4 April, 1659. Six of the name had grad. at
Yale and Dartmouth in 1828. RANDOLPH, Cambridge 1642.
BUSHNELL, GOODMAN, Massachusetts. Winthrop, i. Hist.
JS. E. 387. There was a widow Bushnell of Boston in 1637, men*
lioned by Snow, Hist. Boston, page 60. A John Bushnell was of
Boston in 1665. FRANCIS, Guilford, 1650. Rev. Harvey Bushnell
of Conn., is probably a descendant. Seven of the name have grad.
at Yale and Williams colleges.
BUSS, JOHN, a physician and preacher, was born a. 1640, and
commenced preaching at Durham, in N. H., in .1678, and was a
minister there forty years successively, though not settled. He d.
in 1736, e. 96. MS petition, dated 1718, to Gov. Shute, and the
Qeneral Assembly of N. H., Jh. Belknap, and various other authori-
ties relying on him, state his age to be 108, but the petition just
oited seems decisive. In it, he states his age to be 78 in 1718.
WILLIAM, Conoovd, 1640, a lieutenant, d. Bl June, 1€98. By his
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BUSWELL. BYFIELD.
wife Ann, he bad, Richard, b. 1640 ; Ann, b. 1641 ; Nathaniel, b.
1646; m. Mary Hayes, 1668; d. 17 Dec. 1717; Joseph, b. 1649;
m. Elizabeth Jones, 1671, and d. 1681. Lieut. Bass m. widow
Dorcas Jones for a 2d wife. Shattuck, MS Hist. Concord.
BUSWELL, ISAAC, Salisbury, freeman 1640. Some of the
New-Ham|>shire branch write the name Buzzell. ^WILLIAM,
Salisbury, representative in 1679.
BUTLBJR HENRY freeman 1651. He was bora in Kent ;
educated at Cambridge ; came to N. £. a. 1650 and was in the
ministry 11 or 12 years. He returned to England, and was settled
at Yeovil, in Somersetshire, and d. 24 April, 1696, as. a. 72. Cala^
my, ii. Account, 61 1 . JOHN, Massachusetts, was admitted freeman
1635. One of this name was member of the ar. co. in 1644. JOHN,
Massachusetts, freen^n 1649. NICHOLAS, Dorchester, freeman
1638. RICHARD, Cambridge 1632, freeman 1634. Holmes, Hist.
Cambridge. THOMAS, Lynn ; removed to Sandwich 1637. Lewis.
WILLIAM, Boston and Cambridge, freeman 1635. He married Eu*
nice, sister of Tristram Cofhn, who came to N. E. in 1644. Petef
Butler, perhaps a son, d. at Boston in 1699.
BUTTALL, THOMAS, Boston, a glover, was admitted member
of the church in 1639. Snow, Hist. Boston.
BUTTERFIELD, BENJAMIN, Woburn, freeman 1643*
Chelmsford 1654, is the great ancestor of the Butterfields in Mid*
dlesex county, Mass. His son Nathaniel, was b. in 1642. There
was a Butterfield near SaylH'ook, who was taken by the Pequots m
1636, and probably put to death. Winthrop, i. Hist. 198. There
was a Samuel Butterfield early at Springfield.
BUTTERWORTH, SAMUEL, admitted freeman 1640. John
Batterworth was on^e of the founders of the first Baptist church in
Swanzey 1663. Nathaniel Butterworth d. at Groton in 1682.
BUTTOLPH, THOMAS, Boston, freeman 1641. Snow, Hist.
Bo^n, 105. He had sons, Thomas, b. 1637; John, b. 1639.
Thomas Buttolph d. in Boston, 30 Nov. 1690.
BUTTON, JOHN, Boston, freeman 1634. Savage, i. Winth.
N. E. 248. Snow, Hist. Boston, 105. MATTHIAS, Ipswich 1648.
ROBERT, Salem, admitted member of the church 27 Feb. 1642 ;
fkeeman 1642.
BUTTRICK, WILLIAM, Concord 1635, came over with Thoip^
as Flint, m. (Ist) Sarah Bateman 1646, who d. 1664, (2d) Jane
Groodenow, in 1667. He d. 30 June, 1693. His children were,
Mary, William, John, b. 1653, settled in Stow ; Samuel, Edward^
Joseph, Sarah, and Mary. Shattuck, MS Hist. Concord.
BUXTON, ANTHONY, Salem, 1637 ; d. 1684. Thomas Bux-
ton, who is styled a husbandman, was of Salem and d. a. 1654.
BY AM, GEORGE, was admitted member of the church in Salem,
27 Sept. 1640 ; freeman 1642.
BYFIELD, ||*NATHANIEL, son of Rev. Richard Byfield, of
Long*Ditton, in Sussex and the youngest of 21 children, was b. in
1653, came to Boston in 1674 ; was member of the ar. co. 1679 j
was a proprietor, and one of the principal settlers of Bristol, v/Hq^
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BYLES. CAPEN.
he represented in the House of Representatives, of which he was
speaker in 1693. He was a colonel, judge of the vice-admiralty,
and of the court of common pleas for Bristol county, of the latter
38 years. He d. at Boston, 6 June, 1733, in his 8(Hh year.
BYLES, or BYLEY, HENRY, came from Sarum, in England,
and settled at Salisbury as early as 1640. His daughter m\ Rev.
John Hale.
BYRAM, NICHOLAS, Weymouth 1638, removed to Bridge-
water. He died 1687, leaving one son, Nicholas. 2 Coll. Mass.
Hist. Soc. vii. 154. Rev. Eliab Byram, H. C. 1740, probably a
descendant, was the minister of Hopewell, N. J.
CABELL, JOHN, Springfield 1636. Sprague, Hist. Disc. 14.
CADY, JAMES, came from the west of England with three sons^
and settled at Hingham 1635, but appears to have removed from
thence to Yarmouth, as early as 1640, and the same year there ap-
pears to have been a James Cady of Boston. Nicholas Cady was
of Watertown in 1645, and James and Nicholas Cady were early
inhabitants of Groton.
CAFFINGE, JOHN, Guilford 1639. Trumbull, i. Hist. Conn.
CAKEBREAD, ||THOMAS, Boston, freeman 1634, member of
the ar. co. 1637, removed to Sudbury, and d. 4 Jan. 1643.
CALDWELL, JOHN, Ipswich 1665. Twelve of the name had
grad. at the N. E. colleges in 1828.
CALEF, ROBERT, a merchant of Boston, and author of " More
Wonders of the Invisible World," printed in London 1700, died at
Roxbary, 13 April, 1719. John and Jonathan Calef grad. at D. C.
in 1786 and 1787.
CALL, ♦JONATHAN, Charlestown, representative 1689. PHI-
LIP, Ipswich, died a. 1662, leaving children Philip and Mary.
THOMAS, Charlestown, was admitted freeman 1640.
CAMMOCK, THOMAS, nephew to the Earl of Warwick, came
to N. E. as early as 1632, lived sometime at Pascataqua, and d. at
Scarborough, Me., 1663. 2 Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. v. 216, 224.
Prince, ii. Annals, 70.
CANNEY, THOMAS, Pascataqua 1631, Bloody-Point, in Do-
ver, 1644. Joseph, his son, m. Mary Clements 1670.
CANNON, JOHN, Plymouth 1623. Four of the name had grad.
in 1828, at Union and Williams Colleges.
CANTERBURY, CORNELIUS, Hingham 1653.
CANTLEBURY, WILLIAM, Lynn, 1641 ; afterwards of Salem,
and died 1663,
CANWELL, JOHN, Massachusetts, was admitted freeman in
1631.
CAPEN, BERNARD, Dorchester, freeman 1636, d. 8 Nov. 1638,
m, 76, His widow, Jane Capen, d. 26 March, 1653, ae. 75. Dor-
chester Sexton Monitor, 13. ||*JOHN, Dorchester, freeman 1634 ;
member of the ar. co. 1646 ; a captain of the militia; deacon of the
church 1656 ; representative 1671, 1673 — 1678, 6 years. He died
4 April, 1692, ». 80. JOSEPH, minister of Topsfield, son of
John Capen, was born at Dorchester, 20 Dec. 1658, grad. at H. C«
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GARDEN. GARY.
1667, ord. at Topsfield, 11 June, 1684 ; died 30 June, 1725, in his
67th year, leaving widow, Priscilla, and several children.
GARDER, RICHARD, Boston, freeman 1636. Savage, i,
Winth. N. E. 248. ii. 121, 148.
GARLETON, ♦EDWARD, Rowley, freeman 1642, representa-
tive 1644 to 1647, 4 years. His son Edward was the first person
horn in Rowley on record. John Garleton, of Haverhill, died in
1669.
GARMAN, JOHN, Lynn 1636, removed to Sandwich in 1637.
Lewis. Winthrop [ii. Hist. N. E. 124] mentions a Mr. Garman,
the master of a ship.
GARNES, II JOHN, Boston, member of the ar. co. 1649, and the
same year its captain. Mr. Whitman [Hist. Sketch, 20] says he
was a captain in the British navy. Rev. John Games grad. at H.
C. in 1742.
GARPENTER, *WILLIAM, Weymouth, freeman 1640, repre-
sentative 1641, and 1643. WILLIAM, Providence 1641, was one
of the founders of the first Baptist church. 3 Goll. Mass. Hist. Soc.
i. 4. Savage, ii. Winth. 85. Benedict, i. Hist. Baptists. JO-
SEPH, Swanzey, one of the founders of the first Baptist church in
Massachusetts. Rev. Ezra Carpenter, H. G. 1720, and Hon. Ben-
jamin Carpenter, lieut. gov. of Vermont, who d. 29 March, 1804, ae.
79, were probably from this family, both being natives of Re-
hoboth.
GARR, GEORGE, a ferryman and shipwright, was of Ipswich
1638, Salisbury 1642, d. 4 April, 1682.
CARRIER, THOMAS, Billerica 1665, Andover 1692, died at
Colchester, Conn., 16 May, 1735, ae. 109. [Allen, Biog. Diet.]
He came from Wales, and m. 7 May, 1664, Martha Allen, who was
one of the victims of the witchcraft infatuation at Salem-Village, 19
Aug. 1692. He had several children born in Billerica, where his
name is sometimes connected by an alias to Morgan^ in the town
records.
CARRINGTON, EDWARD, Gharlestown, was admitted free-
man li636. Four, Edward, Samuel, Abijah, and George Garring-
ton, have grad. at Yale College.
GARSLEY, WILLIAM, Hingham 1637. Perhaps the William
Casely of Scituate.
GARTER, JOHN, Woburn, freeman 1644. I. Mather, Indian
Wars, 35. Sixteen of the name of Carter had grad. at the N. E.
colleges in 1828. JOSEPH, Newbury 1636. Joseph Garter, sen.
d. at Gharlestown, Dec. 1676. JOSHUA, freeman 1634, perhaps
of Northampton 1660. RICHARD, Boston 1641. Perhaps Car-
der, which see. ||SAMUEL, Gharlestown, freeman 1647 ; member
of the ar. co. 1648. Sons, Samuel, born 18 Sept. 1642, and proba-
bly the graduate of of H. G. 1660 ; Zachary, and others. THO-
MASy the first minister of Woburn, came to N. E. as early as 1635,
and was admitted freeman, 9 March, 1637, lived several years at
Dedham, and Watertown ; was ordained at Woburn, 22 Nov. 1642,
and d. 5 Sept., 1684, ae. 74. Johnson, Hist. N. E. 177, 181. Chick-
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CARTER. CHAFFIN.
eriof , Ded. Sermon. Worthington, Hist. Dedh&m, 104. THO-
MAS, Charlestown, freeman 1636, was perhaps one of the propri©*
tors of Salisbury. THOMAS, son of the preceding, was aidmitted
freeman 1647.
CARTLAND, PHILIP and NATHANIEL, Lynn 1638. (See
KififTLAND.) The name of Cardand exists in New-Hampshire.
CARVER, ^JOHN, one of the first pilgrims of Plymouth I02a,
and the first governour of the colony, died in April, 1621. His wife
died 5 or 6 weeks after. Prince, i. Annals, 105. Allen, Biog.
Diet.
CARY, JAMES, came fi-om Bristol, England, and settled at
Charlestown as early as 1639, and died in 1681. His children
were, John ; James, b. 1644 ; Nathaniel, b. 1645 ; Jonathan, b.
1646 ; Elizabeth ; Eleanor. From him descended Rev. Thomas
Cary, of Newburyport, H. C. 1761, whose son. Rev. Samuel Cary,
H. C. 1804, was minister of King's Chapel, and d. 1815, as. 30.
JOHN, Bridgewater, came to N. E. fi'om Somersetshire, a. 1640,
at the age of ^ ; was one of the first settlers, and the first town
clerk of that town. He d. 2 Nov. 1681. Cary, Genealogy of North-
Bridgewater. NICHOLAS, Salem 1637.
CASELY, EDWARD, Scituate 1638, removed to Barnstable.
2 Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. iv. 239. WILLIAM, Scituate 1639. Ibid.
CASKIN, WILLIAM, Concord 1642. Daughter Sarah born
1642.
CASS, JOSEPH, Exeter, a. 1680, had children, from one of whom
descended Major Jonathan Cass, father of Hon. Lewis Cass, govern-
our of Michigan, a native of New-Hampshire.
CAULKIN, •HUGH, Lynn, admitted freeman 1642 ; went to
Gloucester as early as 1643; representative in 1650 and 1651.
John Caulkins grad at Y. C. 1788.
CAYNE, CHRISTOPHER, Cambridge. (See Keaine.)
CHADBOURNE, •HUMPHREY, Pascataqua 1631, Kittery
1652, was representative 1657 and 1659. Ichabod R. Chadboume,
esq., D. C. 1808, and Thomas Chadbourne, M. D., of Conway, N.
H., are descendants from him or the following. WILLIAM, Pa»-
cataqua 1631, may have been the one of Boston in 1644. WII#-
LIAM, son of the preceding, Pascataqua 1631, Kittery 1652.
CHADDOCK, THOMAS, Newbury, m. Sarah Woolcott, O.
April, 1674.
CHADWELL, RICHARD, Lynn 1636 , removed to Swxdwieh
1637. Lewis. THOMAS, Lynn 1648 ; died Feb. 1683. He had
eons Thomas, Moses, and Benjamin. Ibid.
CHADWICK, ♦CHARLES, Watertown, freeman 1681, repre-
sentative 1657 aoid 1659; died 10 April, 1682, ». 86. Shattuck.
JOHN, Watertown, son of the preceding, freeman 1655, was called
Sergeant Chadwick, had 5 sons and 3 daughters, and d. 5 Feb.
1711. THOMAS, Watertown, brother of the preceding, had 4
sons and 3 daughters. Ibid.
CHAFFY, MATTHEW, a ship^sarpetiter, was admitted mero-
ber of the church in Boston, 1636 ; freeman 1637. Desoendaals
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CJHAFFY. CHAPLAIN.
write the name Ckqfee, THOMAS, Hingham 1637 ; removed to
Swanzey. Lincoln, Hist. Hingham.
CHAFLIN, MICHAEL, Sal^n 1637, was admitted freeman
1643.
CHAMBERLAIN, EDMUND, Chelmsford 1655, had a son Ed-
mund, b. 20 May, 1656, and probably other children. Descendants
remain. HENRY, Hingham, a blacksmith, wae admitted freeman
1636, and left sons, Henry, perhaps the freeman of 1645, and Wil*
ham. JOHN, Charlestown, d. 3 March, 1653. John, a currier »
perhaps the same admitted townsman of Boston, 28 July, 1651.
RICHARD, Braintree 1644. RICHARD, Portsmouth, counsellinr
under the provincial government 1682. THOMAS, Wobum, free*
man 1644 ; removed to ChelmsfcHrd. WILLIAM, Billerica 1654,
perhaps son of Henry of Hingham, had sons Jacob, Thomas, and
Edmund. He d. 31 May, 1706, e. 86.
CHAMBERS, THOMAS, Scituate 1639. Rev. Joseph Cham-
bers, grad. at N. J. College in 1765.
CHAMPERNOON, fFRAN.CIS, York, Me., 1665, a captain
and magistrate, and in 1684 one of the provincial counsellors of
New-Hampshire. Hubbard, Hist. N. E. 564. Belknap.
CHAMPNEY, JOHN, Cambridge 1635. Joseph Champney was
admitted freeman in 1654. RICHARD, Cambridge 1635, free^
man 1636, an elder of the church, d. 26 Nov. 1669. By Jane, his
wife, his children were, Esther, born in England ; Samuel ; Dan-
id, bom 9 March, 1645, admitted to the church 1663; Lydia.
*SAMUEL, Cambridge, admitted m^nber of the church 1661, fre&»
man 1663, was son of the preceding. He lived in Billerica several
years, and five of his children were born there. Joseph and Daniel
were b. at Cambridge. He was representative of Cambridge 1666
and 1689.
CHANDLER, EDMUND, Duxbury, one of the first settlers a.
1645. Thirty-six of the name had grad. at the N. E. colleges in
1628. JOHN, one of the proprietors of Concord, was admitted free-
man in 1640. One of the same name was admitted townsman of
Boston 31 May, 1647. *THOMAS, Andover 1645, son of Wil-
liam Chandler, was representative in 1678, and at the 2d session
1679. His sons were John, Willieuod, Thomas, Henry, and Joseph,
who all settled in Andover. WILLIAM, Roxbury, was admitted
freeman iii 1640, and d. 19 June, 1641. WILLIAM, Newbury, a
cooper, had several children, and d. 5 Maxch, 1702^ ae. 85. Mary^
kts wife, died 1666.
CHAPIN, ♦HENRY, Springfield, representative 1689. Twen-
ty^hree of tlie name of Chapin had grad. at the N. E. colleges in
1826. *JOSIAH Weymouth 1659, Braintree, freeman 1676, rep-
resentative for Mendon 1689. SAMUEL, Braintree, freeman 1644,
when he appears to have settled in Springfield, where he was a dea-*
con, d. 11 Nov. 1675.
CHAPLAIN, •CLEMENT, Cambridge 1635, was admitted
fiieeman and ekcted representative in 1636; probably went to
Weathersfield, where was a Chaplain in the early seittiement.
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CHAPLIN. CHAUNCY,
CHAPLIN, HUGH, Rowley, son of Ebenezer Chaplin, b. 10
May, 1572, and grandson of Jeremy Chaplin of Bradford in York-
shire, b. 4 Aug. 1541, was born 22 May, 1603, came to N. E. as
early as 1638, and was admitted freeman in 1642. He is the an-
cestor of Rev. Daniel Chaplin, D. D. of Groton. His son Joseph was
b. in 1643, and settled in Attleborough, Mass.
CHAPMAN, JOHN, Massachusetts, was admitted freeman in
1634. Jacob Chapman was admitted a resident or townsman in
Boston, 28 March, 1642. RICHARD, Braintree 1647, was killed
by the Indians. He had daughters, Susan, Hope, and Mary. Dea.
Samuel Chapman was a proprietor of Westfield in 1660. {ROB-
ERT, Connecticut, was elected a magistrate in 1683. Twelve of
the name, and probably his descendants, had grad. at Y. C. in 1828.
CHAPPELL, NATHANIEL, Massachusetts, freeman 1639.
One of this name received an honorary degree from Midd. Coll. in
1819.
CHARD, WILLIAM, Weymouth, admitted freeman 1654, wa&
town clerk. Thomas Chard, born in 1657, lived in Boston in 1680.
CHARLES, WILLIAM, Marblehead 1648.
CHASE, ACIUILA, Newbury, was born 1618, removed to Hamp*
ton. His children born in Newbury were, Aquila, b. 26 Sept. 1652 ;
Thomas, born 1654 ; John, b. 2 Nov. 1655 , Daniel, 1661 ; Moses,
b. 24 Dec. 1664, and several daughters. He is the ancestor of Hon.
Dudley Chase, a U. S. senator from Vermont, and of Rev. Philan-
der Chase, D. D., bishop of the Ohio diocese. Descendants are very
numerous. Thirty of the name had grad. at the N. E. colleges in
1828. THOMAS, an early settler of Hampden, d. in 1652. Cof-
fin. WILLIAM, Massachusetts, requested to be made freeman
1630, and was admitted 14 May, 1634.
CHATFIELD, GEORGE, Guilford 1650. John Chatfield grad.
at Y. C. 1735.
CHATTERTON, MICHAEL, Portsmouth 1640. Belknap, i.
Hist. N. H. 47. THOMAS, Pascataqua 1631. Adams, Annals
Portsmouth, where the name is Chatherton.
CHAULKLEY, ROBERT, Charlestown, was admitted freeman
1647, d. 2 Sept. 1672.
CHAUNCY, BARNABAS, son of the following, was admitted
member of the church in Cambridge, 10 Dec. 1656, grad. at H. C.
1657, and died according to W. Winthrop [MS Catalogue] in mid-
dle age. CHARLES, the second president of Harvard College,
was the 5th son of George Chauncy, of Hertfordshire, who died in
1627. He was baptized at Yardley, 5 Nov. 1592, educated at
Trinity College, Cambridge ; settled at Marstow, then at Ware^
came to N. E. in 1638, arrived at Plymouth, where he preached 3
years, settled at Scituate 1641 ; became president of H. C. 27 Nov.
1654, died 19 Feb. 1672, in his 80th year, or, according to Mather
and others, in his 82d year. His wife was Catharine, daughter of
Robert Eyre, esq. of Wiltshire, and she d. 4 Jan. 1668. His chil-
dren were Isaac, Ichabod, Barnabas, Nathaniel, Elnathan, Israel^
Sarah, and Hannah. Sarah, admitted member of the churchy IG
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Dec. 1656, became the wife of Rev. Gershom Bulkley. CHARLES,
minister of Fairfield, Conn., grandson of the preceding, grad. at
H. C. 1686, and died 4 May, 1711. He was father of Rev. Charles
Chauncy,' D. D., of Boston. ELNATHAN, son of President
Chauncy, was baptized at Scituate, grad. at H. C. 1661, and set-
tled as a physician in Boston. ICHABOD, brother of the pre-
ceding, born in England 1635, grad. at H. C. 1651 ; went to Eng-
land, and was chaplain to Sir Edward Harley's regiment, at Dun-
kirk, was afterwards physician in Bristol, and of" good note." He
went to Holland 1684 ; returned to England 1686, and d. at Bristol,
25 July, 1691, ». 56. Mary, his widow, died a. 1736, sb. 90.
ISAAC, brother of the preceding, was born 23 August, 1632, grad.
at H. C. 1651 ; went to England, where he settled in the ministry ;
was ejected from office after the restoration : settled then in Lon-
don, where he d. 28 Feb. 1712, in his 80th year. His children
were, 1. Isaac ; 2. Uzziel, who died 1696 ; 3. Charles, before nam-
ed ; 4. Elizabeth, who m. John Nisbet, of London, 10 Dec. 1689,
and died 1727. ISRAEL, brother of the preceding, was born at
Scituate, grad. at H. C. 1661, was ordained the minister of Stam-
ford, Conn., J665 ; d. 14 March, 1703, ae. 59. He had two sons,
Charles and Isaac, whose posterity are in England. iV^ THAN"
lEL, minister of Hatfield, was brother of the preceding, and was bapt.
at Scituate; grad. 1661, at H. C. of which he was fellow ; died 4
Nov. 1686. His children were, 1. Catharine, who m. Rev. Daniel
Brewer ; 2. Abigail, who m. 1st, Dr. Hudson, 2d, Edward Burroughs ;
3. Isaac, who died without issue ; 4. Nathaniel, who had 3 sons and
3 daughters ; 5. Sarah, who m. Rev. Samuel Whittelsey, of Wal-
lingford. Conn.
CHEATER, JOHN, Newbury 1644, went to Wells, Maine.
CHECKETT, JOSEPH, Scituate 1638.
CHECKLEY, HANTHONY, Boston, a captain, elected member
of ar. CO. 1662. Capt. Samuel Checkley was the ancestor of the
graduates of this name at Harvard College. JOHN, Boston, free-
man 1648. Son John, born 1653.
CHEDSEY, JOHN, New-Haven 1644, a dea. of the church, d. 31
Dec. 1688, ae. 67. This name is now written Chidsey in this country.
CHEESEHOLME, ||THOMAS, Cambridge, freeman 1636;
member of ar. co. 1638, deacon of the church. The name of Chis-
olm exists in N. E.
CHEESEBOROUGH, WILLIAM, Boston, freeman 1631, re-
sided in Braintree, Rehoboth, and Stonington, Conn, to which place
he removed in 1649. His descendants are in Connecticut, where
three have grad. at Yale college, and several have been ministers.
His son Joseph was b. at Braintree, 18 July, 1640. Savage, i.
Winth. N. E. 55, 76. Holmes, i. Amer. Annals, 580.
CHEESHAHTEAUMUCK, CALEB, an Indian, and the only
one who grad. at H. C. the first century, received the degree of A.
B. in 1665, and died at Charlestown the next year.
CHEEVER, BARTHOLOMEW, Boston, came from Canter-
bury, England, a. 1637, admitted freeman L647,died 18 Dec. 1693,
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CHEEVER. CHICKERING.
ae. 88, leaving no children. He made his nephew Richard, 3d son
of Daniel Cheever, of England, his heir, who came to N. E. in 1668,
and died in France on his return to England in 1704. Boston
Magazine, 1826, p. 619. DANIEL, Cambridge 1647, member of
the church, With Esther his wife. His children were Lydia, b.
1647 ; James ; Daniel ; Mary ; John, bapt. 1659 ; Esther ; Israel,
bapt. 1661; Hannah; Elizabeth; Gamilla; [?] Elizabeth, 2d. EZE-
KIEL, the celebrated schoolmaster, of whom an early poet says,
** 'Tis Corlet's pains, and Cheever's, we must own,
" That thou, New-England, art not Scythia grown,"
was born in London, 25 Jan. 1615, came to N. E. in 1637, and
settled at New-Haven ; removed to Ipswich, Dec. 1650, to Charles-
town, Nov. 1660, to Boston, 6 Jan. 1670, where he died 21 August,
1708, SB. 93. Ezekiel Cheever of Salem was admitted freeman in
1681. SAMUEL, the first ordained Minister of Marblehead, was
son of the preceding, and was born at New-Haven, 22 Sept. 1639 ;
grad. at H. C. 1659; ordained 13 August, 1684 ; d. 29 May, 1724,
OB. 85. Rev. Ames Cheever, his son, grad. at H. C. 1707, and was
the minister of Manchester, Mass. I'HOMAS, brother of the pre-
ceding, grad. at H. C. 1677, freeman 1680 ; ordained at Maiden,
from whence he removed and was settled the first minister of Chel-
sea, 19 Oct. 1715, died in Nov. 1749, ae. 93.
CHELETT, NICHOLAS, Boston, admitted freeman 1645.
CHELLIS, ♦PHILIP, was born a. 1617, came to N. E. and set-
tied in Salisbury; was representative in 1662. Coll.'N. H. Hist.
Soc. ii. 222, where the name is spelled Chalice.
CHENEY, JOHN, Newbury, freeman 1637, had a son Nathan-
iel and other children, died 17 Jan. 1672. There was a John Che-
ney at Watertown at an early period, who d. 5 Sept. 1675. Seven
of the name have grad. at the N. E. colleges. WILLIAM, Roxbu-
ry 1639, died 30 June, 1667, ae. 73. Son John was born 1640.
CHESLEY, PHILIP, Dover 1642. Thomas Chesley was of
Dover in 1663.
CHESTER, LEONARD, Weathersfield 1635, came to N. E.
1633, from Leicestershire, and d. 11 Dec. 1648, ae. 39. His son
John died 23 Feb. 1607, in his 62d year ; his grandson John, esq.,
d. 14 Dec. 1711, ae. 56. Col. John Chester, son of the last, was b.
30 June, 1703, and died 11 Sept. 1771, leaving son, Hon. John
Chester, b. 29 Jan. 1749 . d. 4 Nov. 1809. Eleven of the name
have grad. at the N. E. colleges.
CHICHESTER, JAMES, Salem 1651, removed firom thence.
WILLIAM, Marblehead 1648.
CHIDLEY, II JOHN, member of the ar. co. 1639.
CHICKERING, ||*Francis, Dedham, freeman 1640, member of
ar. CO. 1643 ; representative 1644 and 1653. He was chosen one
of the first deacons at Dedham in 1650. Worthington, Hist. Ded-
ham, 104. ♦HENRY, Dedham, freeman 1641, representative
1642—1644, 1647, and 1651, 5 years. Four of this name, two of
them clergymen, had grad. at Harv. College in 1826.
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CHILD, ♦EPHRAIM, Watertown, was admitted freeman in
1631, having come to N. E. the preceding year. He was elected
representative in the years 1635, 1646, 1649, 1650, and from 1652
to 1662, excepting 1653 and 1658. He was a deacon of the church,
and d. 13 Feb. 1663, ae. 70. Twelve of the name, and seven spel-
hng it Childs, had grad. at the N. E. colleges in 1826. JOSEPH,
Massachusetts, was admitted freeman in 1654. ROBERT, a phy-
sician, who received the degree of Doctor of Medicine from Padua,
came twice to N. E. and gave considerable disturbance to the go-
vernment. [Winthrop, ii. Hist. N. E. Index. Winslow, N. Eng-
land's Salamander Discovered, 1647.] Robert Child was one of
the petitioners for the grant of Lancaster in 1644. Willard, Hist.
Lancaster. WILLIAM, Massachusetts, was admitted freeman
1634.
CHILLING WORTH, THOMAS, Lynn ;. removed to Sand-
wich 1637. Lewis.
CHILTON, JAMES, one of the first pilgrims at Plymouth 1620,
died 8 Dec. 1620.
CHINE, GEORGE, Marlborough 1648.
CHITTENDEN, THOMAS, Scituate 1638. WILLIAM, New-
Haven 1639, Guilford 1650. He was probably the ancestor of Tho-
mas Chittenden, the first governour of Vermont, who was a native
of East-Guilford, Conn. Hon. Martin Chittenden, his son, grad. at
D. C. 1789, and has been governour of Vermont.
CHOATE, JOHN, Ipswich 1648. Benjamin, Amos, George,
and Augustus Choate have grad. at Harvard, and Rufus Choate,
D. C. 1819, was a tutor at Dartmouth College.
CHUBB, THOMAS, was born in Crewhorn, in Somersetshire,
came to N. E. as early as 1636, settled in Salem, and afterwards
lived in Beverly, where he d. 17 Oct. 1688, ae. 82. Beverly Town
Records.
CHUBBUCK, THOMAS, Hingham 1634. Jeremiah Chubbuck
grad at H. C. 1725.
CHURCH, BENJAMIN, Little-Compton, the celebrated warrior,
was son of Joseph Church, and was born at Duxbury 1639 ; [Judge
Davis says at Plymouth] m. Alice South worth, by whom he had Tho-
mas, Constant, Edward, Benjamin, Charles, and one daughter. Col.
Church d. 17 Jan. 1718, sb. 77. For an account of him and some
of his descendants, see S. G. Drake's edition of Church's Memoirs.
Eighteen of the name had grad. at the N. E. Colleges in 1825.
GARRETT, Watertown 1636 ; freeman 1649, had sons, John, b.
10 March, 1637 ; Samuel, b. 12 June, 1640. JOSEPH, Duxbury,
1639, had sons Joseph, Caleb, and Benjamin, and perhaps, others.
Caleb lived in Watertown ; the other two at Little-Compton. Life
of Church in his memoirs, 159. RICHARD, Massachusetts,
requested freedom 19 Oct. 1630, and was probably the same who
was afterwards at Hingham, and possibly the Richard Church, one
of the first settlers of Duxbury, whom Mr. Bradford [2 Coll. Mass.
Hist Soc. X. 66] makes to be the father of the '* great warriour
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CHURCHMAN. CLARK.
against the Indians/' But the Life of Church, in his Memoirs,
quoted above, says Joseph was the father of Benjamin.
CHURCHMAN, HUGH, Lynn 1640 ; died 1644. Lewis.
CHUTE, LIONEL, a schoolmaster of Ipswich, d. about 1645,
leaving a son James, and perhaps other children. Daniel and
James Chute grad. at D. C. in 1810 and 1813.
CLAP, EDWARD, Dorchester, freeman 1636, deacon of the
church 26 years, d. 8 Jan. 1644, leaving no issue. Twelve of the
name had grad. at Harv. and Yale in 1828. NICHOLAS, Dor-
Chester 1636, was a deacon of the church. His son Nathaniel was
b. 15 Sept. 1640. ||*ROGER, Dorchester 1630, was born at Sal-
colm, in Devonshire, 6 April, 1609, came to N. E. with Messrs.
Maverick and Warham ; was admitted freeman 1634 ; member of
the ar. co. 1646, lieutenant of the same 1655 ; captain of the militia ;
representative 1652 — 1665, excepting one year, and 1671, 14 years.
He d. 2 Feb. 1691, in his 82 year. His sons were, Samuel, b. 11 Oct.
1634, a representative in 1689; died 15 Oct. 1708; William and
Waitstill who both d. young; Preserved, one of the first settlers of
Northampton, who d. 20 Sept. 1720 ; Hopestill ; Desire. THOM-
AS, Weymouth, brother of Nicholas Clap, freeman 1638, removed
to Hingham, and from thence to Scituate, and d. 1684. Son
Thomas born at Weymouth 1639.
CLARK, ARTHUR, Hampton, was admitted freeman 1640.
The name of Clark is a very common one ; it is sometimes spelled
Clarke, but more frequently the t is omitted. One hundred and
four persons of the name had grad. at the New-England and at
Princeton and Union colleges in 1826, of whom 28 have been set-
tled ministers. Kelly, MS Catelogue. DANIEL, Ipswich, 1635.
Hutchinson (i. Hist. Mass. 385] names a Daniel Clarke, and Rev.
Mr. Felt gives me the name of David Clark, of Ipswich, at an
early period. JDANIEL, a magistrate of Connecticut, in 1662,
secretary of the colony in 1660. EDMUND, Lynn 1636 ; removed
to Sandwich 1637. Lewis. {HENRY, Connecticut, was a magis-
trate in 1648, and many years afterwards. ||HUGH, Watertown
1640, three of whose children were, John, born 13 Oct. 1641 ; Uri-
ah, b. 5 April, 1644 ; Elizabeth, b. 6 Nov. 1647. There was a
Hugh Clark, probably the same, who was admitted freeman in 1660,
member of ar. co. 1666, and who d. at Roxbury, 20 July, 1693.
Elizabeth, his wife, died in 1692. fJEREMIAH, Rhode-Island,
was president of the colony in 1648. He was probably one of the
brothers of John Clark, one of the founders of the colony. JOHN,
Cambridge, freeman 1632, probably went with Rev. Thomas Hook-
er to Connecticut, where several of the name were early in publick
life. JOHN, a physician, and one of the founders of the R. I. col-
ony, came, according to tradition, from Bedfordshire, and settled in
Massachusetts, from whence he was driven before 1638. He was
treasurer of R. I. colony, and a minister. He died 20 April, 1676.
Sec an account of him in Allen's Biog. Diet. 190 — 192. He had
3 brothers, ancestors to a large family in Rhode-Island. •JOHN,
the first physician iw Newbury, was born a. 1598, settled in Newbu-
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CLARK.
rj in 1638 ; admitted freeman 1639, representative at the Sept.
session that year ; removed to Boston, where he was much distin-
guished as a physician, and died in Jan. 1665, m, 66. Thacher, i.
Med. Biog. 222. Coffin, MS letter. *JOHN, son of the preceding,
was a physician, and admitted freeman 1673 ; representative 1689
and 1690, and d. 17 Dec. 1690. His son John was born 27 Jan.
1668, grad. at H. C. 1687, was rep. of Boston from 1708 to 1714,
and 1720 to 1724 ; chosen speaker 1709, 1730—1723 ; was also a
counsellor, and d. 6 Dec. 1728. Ibid, 223. JOHN, Massachu-
setts, admitted freeman 1635, may have been the John Clark who
removed to R. Island. JOSEPH, Dedham, freeman 1635; had
sons, Joseph, b. 1642 ; Benjamin 1643, and Ephraim 1645. JO-
SEPH, Newport 1644 ; one of the founders of the first Baptist
church in that place. JONAS, Cambridge, freeman 1647, had by
his first wife, Sarah and Jonas ; by the 2d, Elizabeth, whom he m.
1650, his children were, Elizabeth ; Thomas, b. 1653 ; Jno. born
1655 ; Timothy ; Samuel, b. 1659 ; Abigail ; Mary ; Jno. b. 1665 ;
Nath'l, 1677. NATHANIEL, Plymouth, was one of Sir Edmund
Andros' council in 1687, d. 1717, sb. 73, leaving no children. Na-
thaniel Clark, of Newbury, d. 25 Aug. 1690. NICHOLAS, Cam-
bridge 1634. RICHARD, one of the first pilgrims at Plymouth,
died in 1621. A Richard Clark was an early settler at Rowley.
ROBERT, Boston, was assistant minister of King's Chapel in
16S6. J|(*THOMAS, Boston, admitted freeman, and member of
ar. CO. 1638 ; captain of ar. co. 1651 ; major of the Suffolk regiment;
representative 1651, 18 years ; speaker of the house 1662, '65, '69,
'70, and '72 ; elected assistant 1673 to 1677, 5 years. He died 13
March, 1683. He was one of the two who entered their dissent
against the law of 1656 punishing with death all quakers who should
return to Massachusetts after banishment. THOMAS, jr., Boston,
probably son of the preceding, was representative from 1673 to
1676, 4 years. THOMAS, blacksmith, of Boston, was admitted a
townsman 25 Nov. 1639, member of the church 1640, freeman
1641. Cornelius and Jacob, sons of Thomas Clark, were b. in
1639 and 1642. THOMAS, Dorchester, member of the church
1636. There was a Thomas Clark of Ipswich in 1648, and ano-
ther in 1674, who was admitted freeman that year. There was a
Thomas Clark of Lynn 1640, who removed to Reading. THO^
MAS, the second minister of Chelmsford, son of Jonas Clark, was
born at Cambridge, 2 March, 1653 ; grad. at H. C. 1670, succeed-
ed Rev. John Fiske in 1677 ; d. 7 Dec. 1704, ae. 52. His children
were, Jonas, a colonel and magistrate, born 20 Dec. 1684, died 8
April, 1770 ; Thomas, b. 28 Sept. 1694 ; Elizabeth, who m. Rev.
John Hancock, of Lexington ; Lucy, who m. Major William Tyng,
of Dunstable ; and several who died in infancy. Mary his first wife,
d. 2 Dec. 1700, and he m. Elizabeth Whiting in 1702. THOMAS,
Newport, one of the founders of the first Baptist church in that place
in 1644. THOMAS, Plymouth, d. 24 March, 1697, 8b. 98. There
was a Thomas Clark of Scituate in 1676. {WALTER, Rhode-
Island, was speaker of the house of deputies; one of Sir Edmund
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CLARK. COALBORN.
Andros' council 1687, and governour in 1676, 1686, 1696, and
1697. WILLIAM, Ipswich, one of the first settlers 1633, and pro*
bably admitted freeman in 1631. He is mentioned by Prince, who
omits his name of captain, which is supplied by the Ipswich town
records. There was a William Clark of Watertown in 1631 ;
another of Dorchester, and member of the church in 1636 ; one of
Salem, who died a. 1647 ; and one who was admitted freeman in
1639. WILLIAM, Lynn 1646; perhaps the member of the ar. co.
in 1647 ; died 5 March, 1683. His children were, Hannah ; John,
who d. 1684 ; Lydia ; Sarah ; Mary ; and Elizabeth. Lewis. *WIL-
LIAxM, Northampton, representative in 1663. URIAH, Water-
town, son of Hugh Clark, was born at Watertown, 5 April, 1644,
admitted freeman 1685. He was father of Rev. Peter Clark, H. C.
1712, a learned minister of Danvers^ whose sons, Peter and Wil-
liam, grad. at H. C. 1739 and 1759, the latter an Episcopal minis-
ter of Dedham. [See Worthington's Hist. Dedham, 119, and Whit-
ney's Hist. Hingham, 42.1 A descendant of the sixth generation
fi-om-Rev. Peter Clark, tne whole series being of that name, is a
member of Dartmouth College.
CLARY, JOHN, Hadley 1671.
CLAYS, JOHN, Casco 1665. Hutchinson, Coll. 398. (See
Cloyes.)
CLEMENT, AUGUSTINE, Dorchester, freeman 1636. Sons,
Samuel, b. 1635 ; John, b. 1639. f JOB, Dover, a mandamus coun-
sellor of New-Hampshire 1682. He m. Joanna Leighton, 16 July,
1673. *JOHN, Haverhill, m. 1st, Margaret Dummer 1647 ; 2d,
m. Sarah Osgood, 1649 ; died, it is supposed, in 1659. He was
representative 1654. *ROBERT, brother of the preceding, came
fi-om London 1642, and settled in Haverhill, which he represented
1648 to 1653, 6 years. He died a. 1658. Robert Clement, prob.
his son, d. in 1712. WILLIAM, Cambridge 1636. A William
Clement was member of the ar. co. 1662.
CLEVERLY, JOHN, Braintree, a. 1660, was a lieutenant, and
perhaps d. in Boston, 1703. Rev. John Cleverly, who grad. at H.
C. 1715, was minister of Elizabeth-Town, N. J.
CLEVES, •GEORGE, Falmouth 1658, came to N. E. as early
as 1637 ; was representative in 1663. Winthrop, i. Hist. N. E.
237. ii. 256.
CLIFFORD, IIGEORGE, Massachusetts, member ar. co. 1644.
JOHN, Lynn, d. 17 June, 1698, in his 68th year. Lewis.
CLIPTON, THOMAS, Massachusetts, admitted freeman 1641.
CLOUGH, ISAAC, Massachusetts, admitted freeman 1642.
JOHN, one of the proprietors of Salisbury, and perhaps also of Wa-
tertown, was admitted freeman 1642.
CLOYES, JOHN, Watertown 1637. Sons, John, b. 1638 ; Pe-
ter, b. 1639 ; Nathaniel, b. 1642. Nathan Cloyes, of Massachusetts,
was admitted freeman 1660.
COALBORN, NATHANIEL, Dedham, freeman 1641. Son,
Nathaniel, b. 1644.
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COATES. COE.
COATES, THOMAS, Lynn 1658, had sons John, James, and
Thomas. Lewis.
COBB, HENRY, came to Plymouth as early as 1629 ; was at
Scituate 1633, removed to Barnstable, where he died in 1679, leav-
ing 7 sons and 4 daughters. His descendants, says the antiquary
of Plymouth, [2 Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. iv. 247] are ''as numerous,
figuratively, as the sands on the sea shore." Nineteen of the name
had grad. at the N. E. colleges in 1828.
COBBETT, JOSIAH, Cambridge 1636, freeman 1640, appears
to have been one of the proprietors of Salisbury in 1640. One of
the same name was of Hingham in 1635. SAMUEL, who graduat-
ed in 1663, is supposed to have been the eldest son of the following.
He was admitted freeman in 1674, and was living in 1698. 2WO-
MAS, the fourth minister of Ipswich, was born at Newbury, Eng-
land, in 1608 ; was sometime a student at Oxford, arrived in N. E.
26 June, 1637 ; was colleague with Rev Samuel Whiting, of Lynn,
a. 20 years. He was settled in Ipswich in 1656, and there d. 5
Nov. 1685, ae. 77, leaving sons, Samuel ; Thomas, of whose capture
by the Indians in 1676 Hubbard gives an account ; John, and one
daughter, Elizabeth. Samuel was probably the graduate at H. C. in
1663, and living in 1698.
COBURN, EDWARD, (See Colburn.)
COCKERILL, WILLIAM, Hingham 1635, afterwards of Salem,
where he died 166L
COCKERUM, WILLIAM, Hingham, freeman 1638. He sailed
on his return to England, 3 Oct. 1642. Peter Hobart, MS Diary.
CODDINGTON, JOHN, Boston, d. 18 August 1655. Son
John b. 1653. STOCKDALE, Roxbury, 1644, removed from
thence, and died a. 1650. His wife died at Roxbury, 1644.
Cofiin. f§* WILLIAM, came from Boston, in Lincolnshire, in
1630, and settled at Boston. He was assistant 1630 and 1632 to
1638, 6 years ; representative 1637 ; removed to Rhode-Island,
where he was governour 1674, 1675, 1683, and 1684. He d. 1
Nov. 1678, SB. 77.
CODMAN, ROBERT, 1637, at which time his family consisted
of four persons. He had land granted to him in Salisbury in 1641.
The Codmans in New-Hampshire are descended from William Cod,
who came from Ireland before 1743, and settled at Amherst. The
additional syllable was added by his sons, one of whom was Dr.
Henry Codman, who died in 1812, ae. 68. RICHARD, York,
1653, was son-in-law of Richard Bonighton. STEPHEN, Charles-
town, a. 1680, died in 1706. His son John died in Charlestown
1755. John Codman, esq., a merchant in Boston, who died in 1792,
was father of the Hon. John Codman, of Boston, who d. 17 May,
1803, in his 49th year, and grandfather of Rev. John Codman,
D. D., of Dorchester. WILLIAM, a lieutenant and deputy for
Portsmouth, R. I. in 1672.
COE, MATTHEW, Portsmouth 1640. Belknap, i. Hist. N. H.
47. Rev. Curtis Coe, of N. H. grad. at Brown in 1777. RO-
BERT, freeman in 1634, removed to Weathersfreld, thence to
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COFFIN. COLAMORE.
LongJsland, and settled at Hempstead, as early as 1643, and might
be the high sheriff in 1669, mentioned by Wood, Hist. Sketchy
L. I. 150.
COFFIN, JAMES, son of Tristram Coffin, lived some time in
New-Hampshire, but removed to Nantucket in 1660. His wife was
Mary Severance of Salisbury, whom he m. Dec. 1663. He had 14
children. He is the ancestor of Admiral Sir Isaac Coffin. *f PE-
TER, Dover, brother of the preceding, was born in 1631 ; admitted
freeman in 1666 ; representative 1672, 1673, 1673, appointed coun-
sellor of the province of N. H. in 1692. His wife was Abigail Star-
buck. His children were Abigail, b. 1657 ; Peter, b. 20 August,
1660; Jethro, b. 16 Sept. 1663; Tristram, b. 8. Jan. 1665; Ed-
ward b. 20 Feb. 1669 ; Judith, b. 1672 ; EUzabeth. TRISTRAM,
son of Peter Coffin, of Brixton, England, came to N. E. in 1642,
with his mother, (who d. May, lS)l, m. 77) his wife, and 4 chil-
dren, Peter, Tristram, Elizabeth, and James. He settled at Sali»-
bury, whence he removed to Haverhill, where his children, Mary
and John, were born in 1645 and 1647 ; thence to Newbury, where
Stephen was b. 11 May, 1652, and in 1660 went to Nantucket,
where he died in 1681, e. 76. Twenty*six of his descendants of
the name of Coffin have been educated at the different colleges ia
N. E. Seven of them were born in the same house in Newbury.
J. Coffin, MS letter. TRISTRAM, Newbury, son of the preced-
ing, was b. in 1632, m. Judith, widow of Henry Somerby, in 1652,
and had 10 children. He was admitted freeman in 1668 ; was dea-
con of the church 20 years, and acted as a magistrate. He died 4
Feb. 1704, «. 72.
COGGAN, II JOHN, Boston, was admitted freeman 1633, member
of the ar. co. 1638. He m., 10 March, 1651, Martha, the widow of
Governour Winthrop, and died in 1658. Son Joshua was b. 1652.
JOHN, Boston, son of the preceding, was admitted freeman 1642.
COGGESHALL, *JOHN, Boston, freeman 1632, was represent-
ative at the first general court 1634 ; was banished the colony of
Massachusetts in 1638 ; retired to Rhode-Island, where he was as-
sistant in 1641, and in 1647, president of the colony. His descend-
ants are still in repute in R. I. Savage, I Winth. N. E. 130, 296
and Index.
COGSWELL, JOHN, Ipswich, came to N. E. in 1635, and was
admitted freeman in 1636. In his passage he was wrecked at Pe-
maqaid. He d. 29 Nov. 1669. He had 3 sons, John, b. 1623, and
died in 1653, leaving 3 children ; William, who lived in Ipswich in
1648 ; and Edward, born a. 1629. Coffin. Feit.
COIT, JOHN, Gloucester 1649, was one of the selectmen. Felt
Rev. Joseph Coit grad. at H. C. 1697. Eleven others of the name
had grad. at Harvard and Yale in 1828.
COKER, ROBERT, Newbury 1638, was born in 1606, and d.
19 Nov. 1680. Sons, Joseph, b. 1640 ; Benjamin, b. 1650. The-
odore Coker grad. at H. C. 1726.
COLAMORE, ISAAC, Boston, whose name is CoUmer in the
colony records, a ship-carpenter, was admitted freeman in 1643.
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Peter Colamore, of Scituate, a. 1650, is probably the ancestor of
those of the name in Plymouth county, where the name is common.
COLBRON, •WILLIAM, Boston, freeman 1631 ; representa-
tive 1635, and a ruling elder of the church, d. 1 Aug. 1662. Sav-
age, i. Winth. N. E. 37. ii. Index, 404.
COLBURN, EDWARD, Chelmsford 1675, the ancestor of the
Dracut Colburns, or Coburns. Hubbard, Ind. Wars. NATHAN-
IEL. (See CoALBORN.) ROBERT, Ipswich 1648, had a son
Robert. SAMUEL, Salem 1637.
COLBY, ANTHONY, Cambridge 1632, freeman 1634, removed
to Salisbury, and died 1663, leaving 8 children. Coffin. •SAM-
UEL, Amesbury, representative 1689.
COLCORD, EDWARD, Exeter 1638, when he was one of the
witnesses of the Indian deed to Rev. John Wheelwright. He was
killed by the Indians, 18 June, 1677, ». 61. [Belknap, i. Hist.
N. H. 128 J His descendants are still in N. H., and one of them,
Ebenezer Colcord, d. at Brentwood in 1824, ae. 99.
COLDAM, CLEMENT, Lynn 1630, went to Gloucester. Lewis.
IICLEMENT, son of the preceding, was b. 1622 ; member of ar. co.
1645, and d. 8 April, 1675. Ibid. THOMAS, Lynn 1630, free-
man 1634, d. 8 April, 1675, «. 74. Ibid.
COLE, GEORGE, Lynn 1637 ; removed to Sandwich, and died
about 1653. ISAAC, Charlestown, freeman in 1638, d. 10 June,
1674. He had sons Abraham and Jacob, born in 1636 and 1641.
II JOHN, Boston, member of ar. co. 1642, had sons, John, b. 1643,
and Samuel, b. 1646. There was a John Cole, of Lynn, according
to Mr. Lewis, in 1642, who d. 8 Oct. 1703. RICE, or RISE,
Charlestown, freeman 1633, d. 15 May, 1646. ROBERT, Salem,
freeman 1631, came to N. E. in 1630. He also appears to. have
resided at Ipswich, and may be the same who was one of the foun-
ders of the first Baptist church in Rhode-Island. Savage, ii. Winth.
Index. Benedict, Hist. Baptists. SAMUEL, Boston, came over
in 1630, set up the first house of entertainment in Boston in 1633,
and d. in 1666 or 7. [Winthrop, i. N. E. 124.] He may be the
same person who requested to be made freeman in Oct. 1630, and
whose name is read, by Prince, in the colony records. Pooh, and by
Savage, Cook. WILLIAM, Boston 1653, might be the same who
was a witness to the Indian deed to Rev. John Wheelwright in
1638, and the same who d. at Hampton, a. 1663.
COLEMAN, THOMAS, Newbury 1635, was admitted, freeman
1637 ; went to Nantucket, and d. 1685. His sons were, Benjamin,
b. 1 May, 1640 ; Joseph, b. 2 Dec. 1642; Isaac, T). 20 Feb. 1647.
John and Noah Coleman were of Hadley about 1665.
COLLICOTT, *EDWARD, was representative of the general
court of Massachusetts in 1642. Coll. N. H. Hist. Soc. ii. 214.
tl*RICHARD, Dorchester, freeman 1633 ; member of the ar. co.
1637 ; representative 1637, and perhaps the representative of Saco
in 1672. He removed to Boston, where he d. in 1686. His wife,
Joanna, d. 5 Aug. 1660. His children by Thomasin, another wife,
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COLLIER. COMINS.
were, Experience, a daughter, b. 1641 ; Dependence, a son, b. 5
July, 1643. Savage, ii. Winth. N. E. 336.
COLLIER, Moses, Hingham, was admitted freeman in 1652.
THOMAS, Hingham, freeman 6 May, 1646. A Thomas Collier,
of Hingham, is said to have d. 6 April, 1646. f WILLIAM, Ply-
mouth colony, came to N. E. 1633, was elected assistant from 1634
to 1665, excepting 1638, '52, and '53, 28 years ; was one of the
commissioners of the United Colonies in 1643. Morton, N. E.
Memo. 91. Savage, i. Winth. N. E. 139.
COLLINS, •EDWARD, Cambridge 1640, a deacon of the
church, representative 16 years, from 1^4 to 1670, excepting 1661.
Mather [ii. Magnalia, 116] says he lived to see "several most
worthy sons become very famous persons in their generation." The
church records of Cambridge give the names of his children, viz :
Daniel, who lived in Koningsberg, in Prussia, in 1658 ; John, H. C.
1649; Samuel, who went to Scotland, and was living there with
his wife and son Edward in 1658 ; Martha ; Natl^^l, H. C. 1660 ;
Abigail , Sybil, and Edward. Fifteen graduatii^^i^e N. E. col-
leges of this name. FRANCIS, Salem 1665. HfiNRY, Lynn,
freeman 1637, d. Feb. 1687, leaving sons, John, Henry, and Joseph.
Lewis. JOHN, Gloucester, selectman 1646. Felt. ||JOHN, Bos-
ton, member of the church, admitted freeman 1646 ; member of ar.
CO. 1644. Son Thomas b. 1645. JOHN, son of Deacon Edward
Collins, was born in England, whence, after having graduated at
H. C. in 1649, he returned and not long after went to Scotland,
and in 1658, was a minister in Edinburgh ; was chaplain to Gene-
ral Monk, when he went from Scotland to England. He afterwards
was minister in London, where he d. 3. Dec. 1687. NA THAN-
lEL, brother of the preceding, was born at Cambridge, grad. at
H. C. 1660, and was ordained the minister of Middletown, in Conn.,
4 Nov. 1668. He died 28 Dec. 1684, ae. 42.
COLLISHAW, WILLIAM, Massachusetts, freeman 1634.
COLMAN, EDWARD, Boston 1651. Son Joseph b. 1656.
Twelve of the name of Colman had grad. at the N. E. colleges in
1826. JOSEPH, Scituate, 1638. NOAH, Hadley 1667. Coffin.
THOMAS, Newbury. (See Coleman.) ||WILLIAM, Boston,
member of the ar. co. 1676, was born in Satterly, in Suffolk, Eng-
land, and was father of Rev. Benjamin Colman, D. D. of Boston.
Coffin.
COLT, WILLIAM, Salem, admitted freeman 1648.
COLTON, *GEORGE, Springfield 1644, representative 1669.
Nine of the eleven graduates at Yale College of this name have
been clergymen.
COMBS, GEORGE, Charlestown, d. 27 July, 1659.
COMES, ISAAC, Weymouth 1662.
COMY, or COMEE, David, Concord 1664, d. 31 March 1676.
Shattuck.
COMINS, ISAAC, Watertown. (See Cummings.) MAT-
THEW, Boston, d. 4 Dec. 1654.
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COMPTON, JOHN, Boston, freeman 1634; disarmed 1637.
Savage, i. Winth. N. E. 248. Snow, Hist. Boston, 108.
CONANT, CHRISTOPHER, Plymouth 1623. Davis, Mor-
ton's Memo. 379. ♦EXERCISE, son of Roger Conant, was bap-
tized at Salem, 24 Dec. 1637 ; was admitted freeman 1663 ; was
one of the founders of the church in 1667, in Beverly, which he
represented 1682 — 1684. *ROGER, supposed to be son of Rich-
ard and Agnes Conant, and brother of Dr. John Conant, of Exeter
College, one of the assembly of divines, was born at Budleigh, a
market town in Devonshire, in April, 1591. His grandfather was
John Conant, " descended from ingenious parents of Gittisham,
near Honiton, whose ancestors, for nfiany generations, have been
fixed there, but were originally of French extraction." Gibbs.
He came to N. E. in 1623, lived at Plymouth, Nantasket, Cape
Ann, and Salem, where he built the first house, about 1626. He
was admitted freeman 1631, was representative at the first general
court in 1634 ; was a worthy and useful character, and d. at Beverly,
19 Nov. 1679, in his 89th year. [Coffin.] Joshua Conant, who d.
at Salem, in 1659, and Lot Conant, born 1624, one of the founders
of the church in Beverly, 1667, living in M«rblehead in 1674, were
probably sons of Roger Conant. ROGER, son of the preceding,
was the first child born in Salem, and fi-om that circumstance had
a grant of 20 acres of land in Jan. 1640. He appears to have been
living at Marblehead in 1674. Felt, Annals Salem, 127.
CONDY, JAMES, Braintree, 1640, had sons, Joshua, Experi-
ence, and James. Rev. Jeremiah Condy, H. C. 1726, was a minis-
ter in Boston.
CONEY, II JOHN, Boston, member of ar. co. 1662, died 24 Dec.
1690. See 2 Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. viii. 105, where the name is
spelled Conney,
CONKLING, ANANIAS, Salem, admitted member of the church
29 Dec. 1639 ; fi-eeman 1642, removed to East-Hampton, L. I.
Rev. Benjamin Conkling grad. at Princeton, N. J. 1755, and several
others of the name have been publickly educated.
CONNER, WILLIAM, Plymouth 1623.
CONVERS, ALLEN, Woburn, was admitted freeman 1644.
♦JAMES, Woburn, freeman 1671, representative 1679, 1684—
1686, and 1689, was the distinguished officer in the Indian war,
mentioned by Mather, Magnalia, Book vi. JOSIAH, Woburn, was
admitted freeman 1651.
CONVERSE, •EDWARD, came to N. E. in 1630, was admitted
freeman, resided in Charlestown, and had a grant of the ferry there.
He removed, as early as 1643, to Woburn, which he represented in
1660. Savage, ii. Winth. N. E. 349.
COOKE, *AARON, admitted freeman 1635, was of Northamp-
ton 1659, and a representative in 1668. Forty-four persons of the
name of Cook and Cooke had grad. at the N. E. colleges in 1826,
of whom 11 have been clergymen. |*ELISHA, Boston, son of
Richard Cooke, was born in Boston, 16 Sept. 1637 ; grad. at H. C.
1657 ; admitted fi'eeman 1673 ; representative 1681 to 1683 ; assist-
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ant 1684 — 1686 ; one of the council of safety 1689 ; an agent for
Massachusetts in England 1690 and 1691. He d. 31 May, 1715, ae.
78., leaving son Elisha, a distinguished political character, whograd.
H. C. 1697, and d. at Boston, in August, 1737, ae. 59, whose son
Middlecott grad. at H. C. in 1723. *||GEORGE, Cambridge, was
admitted freeman 1636 ; representative 1636, 1642—1645, five
years ; speaker of the house of reps. 1645 ; captain of the company
at Cambridge 1642 ; a member of the ar. co. and its captain 1643.
He returned to England, and was afterwards a colonel in the time
of the civil wars. Mr. Savage says " he probably died in Oliver's
service." Johnson. Winthrop. FRANCIS, one of the first pil-
grims at Plymouth 1620. JOHN, Salem 1637, admitted member
of the church 1641 ; freeman 1642, removed from Salem, perhaps
to Boston, where a John Cooke d. in May, 1643. ||*JOSEPH,
Cambridge, freeman 1636, representative 1636 — 1640, 5 years;
member of ar. co. 1640. His children were, Joseph ; Elizabeth, b.
1645 ; Mary ; Grace ; Ruth. His wife was Elizabeth. JOSEPH,
Cambridge, son of the preceding, grad. at H. C. 1660 or 1661, was
admitted member of the church at Cambridge, 18 May, 1665, free-
man 1666. His son John was baptized in 1667. JOSIAH, East-
ham 1644. PHILIP, Cambridge, freeman 1647, d. 10 Feb. 1667.
Sons, Samuel, b. 1659 ; Philip, b. 1661 ; John, b. 1663 ; Barnabas,
b. 1665. II^RICHARD, tailor, Boston, member of the church 1634,
freeman 1635 ; member of the ar. co. 1643, and perhaps the repre-
sentative for Dover in 1670, unless he was the Richard Cooke who
d. at Maiden, 14 Oct. 1658. His sons were, Elisha ; Elkanah, b.
1642 ; Joseph, b. 1 May, 1642, who grad. at Harvard College and
d. before 1698. ROBERT, Charlestown, freeman 1641, had a son
Samuel b. in 1644. THOMAS, Guilford, Conn., 1650. WAL-
TER, Weymouth 1643, freeman 1653, had sons, Ebenezer, Wal-
ter, and Nicholas.
COOLEDGE, *JOHN, Watertown, freeman 1636, represenU-
tive 1658. Sons Stephen and Obadiah b. in 1639 and 1642. He
was one of the petitioners for the grant of Dedham.
COOLEY, BENJAMIN, Springfield 1646, Westfield 1660.
Sprague, Hist. Discourse, 52, 83. He d. 17 Aug. 1674. JOHN,
Salem, d. a. 1654.
COOPER, ANTHONY, Hingham 1635. Lincoln, Hist. Hing-
ham. JOHN, Cambridge, freeman 1636, perhaps also of Lynn
1637, and one of the grantees named in the Indian deed of South-
Hampton, L. I., 1640. JOHN, jr., Cambridge, freeman 1642, was
a constable, selectman, and deacon of the church. He m. Anna,
daughter of Nathaniel Sparhawk, and had children, Anna ; Mary ;
Samuel, b. 1654; John, b. 1656; Nathaniel, b. 1659; Lydia;
Hannah. PETER, Rowley 1643. Cofiin. THOMAS, Hingham,
freeman 1638, perhaps removed to Rehoboth. See Davis, Morton's
Memo. 442. THOMAS, freeman 1638, may be the one who re-
moved from Windsor to Springfield in April, 1641, and d. 5 Oct.
1675. Sprague, Hist. Discourse, 52. TIMOTHY, Lynn 1637, d,
March, 1659. He had sons, John, b. 1647 ; Timothy, b. 1651,
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and 4 daughters. Lewis. WILLIAM, Pascataqua 1631. He is
probably the person whom Winthrop, i. Hist. N. E. 120, calls
C^owner.
COPELAND, LAWRENCE, Braintree, d. 30 Dec. 1699, " a
very aged man, born in the reign of our gracious sovereign dueen
Elizabeth, of blessed memory." Records. Judge Sewdl says he.
was 110. He m. Lydia Townsend in 1653, and had sons, Thomas,
b. 1654 ; William, b. 1656 ; John, b. 1658. Alexander, Benjamin,
and George Copland grad. ?Lt Yale and Brown Colleges.
COPIE, JAMES, was admitted freeman 1640.
COPP, WILLIAM, shoemaker, the earliest proprietor of Copp's
Hill, Boston, was admitted freeman 1641. His son Jonathan was
b. 1640. Snow, Hist. Boston, 105. Eider David Copp d. at Bos-
ton, Nov. 1713, ffi. 78. Rev. Jonathan Copp grad. at Y. C. 1744.
CORBIN, ROBERT, Casco-Bay 1658. Pliny M. Corbin grad.
Vermont Coll. 1822.
CORLETT, ELIJAH, was educated at Lincoln College, in Ox-
ford, to which he was admitted in 1626 ; came to N. E. and settled
at Cambridge as early as 1644, and admitted freeman 1645. He
was one of the most eminent schoolmasters in this country,, where
he Uught more than 40 years. He d. 25 Feb. 1687-8, ae. 78. His
children were Rebecca, Hepzibah, and Ammi-Ruhamah, who grad.
1670 at H. C, of which he was a fellow, and d. 1 Feb. 1679.
CORNEL, JOHN, Dorchester, d. 31 July, 1675, ©. 64. James
Cornall was a witness to the Indian deed to Rev. John Wheelwright
1638.
CORNING, SAMUEL, was admitted freeman in 1641, and was
one of the founders of the church in Beverly 1667.
CORNISH, RICHARD, Boston, d. 6 Feb. 1694, perhaps the
one whose wife, Catharine, is mentioned by Hutchinson, i. Hist. Ms.
385. SAMUEL, Salem 1637. James Cornish was the first school-
master and town clerk of Westfield, where was also Gabriel Cornish
in 1667. Thomas Cornish was of Exeter in 1652.
CORWIN. (SeeCuRwiN.)
CORWITHEN, DAVID, Marblehead 1648, was admitted mem-
ber of the church in Salem 1649. DICKORY, Boston, a ship-mas-
ter, d. 6 Sept. 1653. SAMUEL, Marblehead 1648.
CORY, GILES, Salem 1659, was one of the victims of the witch-
craft infatuation in 1692. He was pressed to death, 16 Sept. that
year, at the age of 77. Calef, More Wonders, 217, 218.
COSIN, IIFRANCIS, member of the ar. co. 1640. Isaac Cosin or
Cosins was of Rowley a. 1650. Coffin. MATTHEW, Boston 1656.
COSMORE, JOHN, a magistrate of Connecticut in 1647.
COTTERILL, FRANCIS, Wells 1668.
COTTLE, EDWARD, Salisbury, had a son William, of New-
bury, who d. in 1668, leaving 4 children.
COTTON, JOHN, the second minister of the first church in
Boston, was son of Roland Cotton, esquire, and was born at Derby,
in England, 4 Dec. 1585. He was educated at Emmanuel College,
Cambridge, was settled the minister of Boston, in Lincolnshire^ a.
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COTTON.
1612, from whence he came to N. £. where he arrived 4 Sept. 1633,
and became teacher of the first church, 10 Oct. 1633. He was ad-
mitted freeman in 1634 ; died 23 Dec. [the records of Boston, old
book, say the 15th] 1652, ae. 67. By his first wife, Elizabeth Hor-
rocks, he had no children ; by his second, Sarah Story, he had 1.
Seaborn, born on his passage to N. E. ; 2. Sarah, who d. 20 Jan.
1649 ; 3. John ; 4. Roland, who d. of small pox, 29 Jan. 1649 ; 5.
a daughter, who m. Mr. Eggington ; [G. Mather] 6. Maria, who m.
Rev. I. Mather, D. D., of Boston. Twenty-one of Mr. Cotton's de-
scendants of the family name, besides a large number in the differ-
ent female branches, have grad. at H. C, of whom 14 have been
clergymen. SEABORN, the third minister of Hampton, was son
of the preceding, and was born at sea, in August, 1633, and baptiz-
ed at Boston, 6 September, two days afler his father's arrival. He
grad. at H. C. 1651 ; was ordained 1660 ; died 19 April, 1686, sb.
52. He m. 14 June, 1654, Dorothy, (who d. 26 Feb. 1672) daugh-
ter of Governour Bradstreet, and h^d children, 1. Dorothy, who m.
a Smith, of Hampton ; 2. John ; J3. Ann, b. 23 April, 1661 ; 4. Sa-
rah, b. 2 July, 1663 ; 5. Elizabeth, b. 13 Sept. 1665 ; 6. Mercy, b.
3 Nov. 1666, who m. Capt. Thomas Tufls, whose son. Rev. John
Tufls, grad. at H. C. 1708 ; 7. Abiah, b. and d. 1669 ; 8. Maria, b.
22 April, 1670, m. 1st, Mr. Atwater, and 2d, Samuel Partridge.
One of the daughters m. Richard Pierce, and another a Mr. Carr.
JOHN, minister of Plymouth, brother of the preceding, was born,
13 March, 1640, grad. at H. C. 1657, was ordained 30 June, 1669 ;
dismissed 5 Oct. 1697 ; sailed for Charleston, S. C, 15 Nov. 1698,
settled there in the ministry, and d. 18 Sept. 1699, in his 60th year.
He m. Jane Rosseter, 7 Nov. 1660, (she d. 12 Oct. 1702, ae. 60)
and his children were, 1. John, minister of Yarmouth ; 2. Elizabeth,
wife of (l)Rev. James Ailing and (2) Rev. Caleb Cushing, and
mother of Rev. James Cushing, of Plaistow, N. H., and Rev. John
Cushing, of Boxford ; 3. Sarah ; 4. Roland, minister of Sandwich ;
5. Sarah ; .6. Maria ; 7. son, who d. an infknt ; 8. Josiah ; 9. Sam-
uel ; 10. Josiah, 2d, b. 8. Jan. 1680, grad. at H. C. 1698, a magis-
trate of Plymouth, where he d. 19 Aug. 1756, ae. 76; 11. Theophi-
lus, minister of Hampton-Falls, N. H., who grad. at H. C. 1701,
and d. 18 August, 1726. JOHN, minister of Yarmouth, was the
eldest son of the preceding, and was born at Plymouth, 3 August,
1661 ; grad. at H. C. 1681, and d. 21 Feb. 1706, ae. 45. By Sarah,
his wife, the daughter of Richard Hubbard, of Ipswich, he had Jo-
anna, Sarah, Elizabeth, Mercy, Maria, Margaret, and Priscilla.
JOHN, the fourth minister of Hampton, son of the Rev. Seaborn
Cotton, was born 8 May, 1658, grad. at H. C. 1678, ordained 1696 ;
d. 27 March, 1710, ae. 52. Mary, one of his daughters, m. Rev.
John Whiting, Concord, Ms. ; another m. Rev. Nathaniel Gookin,
His successor at Hampton. He had but one son, whose name is
not ascertained. ROLAND, minister of Sandwich, son of Rev.
John Cotton, of Plymouth, was born 27 Dec. 1667, grad. at H. C.
1685, ordained 2 Nov. 1694, d. 22 March, 1722, ae. 55. His wife
was widow Elizabeth Denison, of Ipswich, only daughter of Hon.
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Nathaniel Saltonstall, and sister of Governour S., of Conn. Their
children were, 1. John, minister of Newton, Ms., who had 5 sons
and 5 daughters ; 2. Sarah ; 3. Rev. Nathaniel, of Bristol ; 4. Abi-
gail, who^ m. Rev. Shearjashub Bourne ; 5. Meriel ; 6. Roland, H.
C. 1719 ; 7. Rev. Josiah, of Providence, Woburn, and Sandown,
N. H. ; 8. Joanna, who m. Rev. John Brown, of Haverhill, whose
4 sons, John, Cotton, Ward, and Thomas grad. at H. C. in 1741,
1743, 1748, and 1752 ; 9. Ward, the minister of Hampton, who
grad. at H. C. in 1729. ||WILLIAM, Boston, freeman 1647 ; mem-
ber ar. CO. 1650, had sons, William, b. 1646 ; William, 2d, 1654.
There was a William Cotton in Portsmouth in 1685, and a John
Cotton in Concord in 1667 and 1679. GEORGE, Springfield d.
17 Dec. 1699.
COTTA, ROBERT, Salem, was admitted freeman 1635. The
name is spelled Chtty in the colony records. Felt, Annals Salem, 172.
COURSER, WILLIAM, Boston, freeman 1636, had a son John,
b. in 1642. Snow, Hist. Boston, 137. The name of Corser exists
in New-Hampshire, and has furnished one graduate, Rev. Enoch
Corser, of Loudon, Dart. Coll. 1811.
COURTNEY, II , was a member of the ar. co. 1640.
CO WDRY, ♦WILLIAM, Lynn 1637, removed to Reading, which
he represented in 1651, and where he was town clerk. He had a
son Nathaniel. Lewis.
CO WELL, EDWARD, Boston 1655, d. 12 Sept. 1691. His son
William was b. in 1655. John Cowell d. at Boston, Dec. 1693.
COWPER, [WILLIAM] Pascataqua 1633. Winthrop, i. Hist.
N. E. 120. (See Cooper.)
COX, MOSES, Hampton 1639, d. 28 May, 1687, ». 93. His
wife Alice, and son John, with six other persons, were drowned in
1657, as they were going out in a boat from Hampton. John Cox
d. at Boston in 1690. John W. Cox and Henry C. Cox grad. at
Dartmouth and Yale Colleges in 1789 and 1806.
CO YE, JOHN, Brookfield, was killed by the Indians, 2 August,
1675. RICHARD, Brookfield 1673.
COYTMORE, ♦THOMAS, Charlestown, freeman 1640, repre-
sentative 1640 and 1641, died on the coast of Wales, 27 Dec. 1645.
[Boston records.] He had sons Thomas and William. Martha, his
widow, m. Gov. Winthrop, in Dec. 1647. Isaac Coytmore was a
member of the ar. co. 1639. Savage, ii. Winthrop, 75. Hubbard.
CRABB, JOHN, requested to be made freeman 19 Oct. 1630.
RICHARD was a deputy at the first general assembly of Connecti-
cut, 1639.
CRABTREE, JOHN, Boston 1639. Son John born 1639.
CRACKBURNE, GILBERT, admitted freeman 1636, became,
with his wife Elizabeth, member of the church in Cambridge 1659,
and d. 2 Jan. 1672.
CRACKSTON, JOHN, Plymouth, one of the first Pilgrims, d.
1621.
CRAFT, •GRIFFIN, Roxbury, was a lieutenant and represent-
ative 1663—1667, 5 years. He had sons, John, b. 1630, m. 1654»
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andd. 3 Sept. 1686 ; Samuel, b. 1637, d. 9 Dec. 1709, ». 72.
Moses Craft, of Newton, probably a descend'ant, was father of Dr.
John Staples Crafts, who had 6 sons born in Bridgewater, Thomas,
Samuel, John, Moses, Edward, Zibeon. Thomas grad. at H. C.
1783, was the minister of Princeton and Middlcborough, Mass., and
died 1819, «. 60. His son Eliphalet Porter Crafts was ordained
the minister of East-Bridgewater in 1828.
CRAM, JOHN, Exeter 1639. Rev. Jacob Cram grad. at D. C.
1782.
CRANCH, ANDREW, New-Hampshire 1687.
CRANE, JJASPER, New-Haven 1639, assistant or magistrate
of New-Haven colony 1658, of Connecticut 1665. Of the name of
Crane, 15 have grad. at Princeton and the N. E. colleges. HENRY,
Dorchester 1658. CHRISTIAN, Cambridge 1647.
CRANSTON, § JOHN, Rhode-Island, was elected Governour in
1679. Walter Cranston grad. at H. C. 1810. §SAMUEL, Rhode-
Island, was the governour of that colony 29 years, from 1698 to
1726, a term of service exceeding that of Governour Eaton, of Con-
necticut. See a note by Mr. Savage in i. Winth. Hist. N. E. 228.
CRANWELL, JOHN, requested to be made freeman 19 Oct.
1630, and was admitted 4 March, 1634. He is probably the one
who d. in Boston in 1639. A Thomas Cranwell was admitted a
resident in Boston, 20 August, 1638. (See Cromwell.)
CRAWFORD, STEPHEN, Massachusetts, d. before 1649.
CRESEY, MIGHILL, Ipswich, died 1670. [Coffin.] Rev.
Noah Cresey grad. at Williams College in 1805.
CRICHLEY, RICHARD, a blacksmith, Boston, was admitted
freeman 1642. His sons were, Samuel, b. 1640 ; Joseph, b. 1643 ;
John, b. 1657.
CRISP, BENJAMIN, Watertown 1639, freeman 1646, had sons,
Jonathan, b. 1639 ; Eleazar, b. 1641.
CROAD, JOHN, Salem 1659, was admitted freeman 1663, d.
1670. He married daughter of Walter Price. Felt, Annals, 239.
RICHARD, merchant of Salem, was son of Richard Croad, of
Hampton, in England, and d. 1689, ae. 61, leaving a wife, Frances,
and children, Hannah, Richard, William, John, and Sarah. Felt,
Annals, 296. RICHARD, Hingham 1656, had a son John, b. 1657.
CROCKER, JOHN, Scituate 1638. Eleven of the name of
Crocker had grad. in 1826 at H. C. and three at Yale. THOMAS,
Kittery, freeman 1652.
CROE, JOHN, one of the petitioners for the grant of Billerica
in 1654. Rev. John Croes, D. D., was the Bishop of the Episcopal
church in New-Jersey.
CROMWELL, GILES, d. at Newbury, at an advanced age, 24
Feb. 1673. His son Philip, a butcher, belonging to Salem, was
admitted freeman in 1665. John Cromwell, b. in 1636, lived in
Newbury, and m. Joan Butler in 1662. SAMUEL, Massachusetts,
was admitted freeman 1634. THOMAS, a mariner, who made a
great fortune by privateering, (See ii. Winthrop, 263, 274] died in
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Boston in 1649, learing a widow, who soon married. Savage, MS
note. THOMAS, Newbury 1637, removed to Hampton.
CROSBY, ANTHONY, a chirurgeon of Rowley before 1652,
bad sons, Nathaniel, b. 1667, d. 7 March, 1701 ; Nathan, b. 1669,
and probably other children. His widow became the 2d wife
of Rev. Seaborn Cotton. *JOSEPH, Braintree, probably son of
Simon Crosby, of Cambridge, was representative 1690, and d. 26
Nov. 1695. He m. Sarah Brackett 1675, and had sons, Thomas,
Simon, Ebenezer, and others. S^MON, Cambridge 1635, freeman
1636, was one of the selectmen in 1636 and 1638. Twenty-six of
the name, and many of them his descendants, had received degrees
at the N. E. Colleges in 1826. ♦SIMON, son of the preceding,
was the first innholder in Billerica, which he represented in 1691,
1697, and 1698. He m. Rachel Brackett, 15 July, 1659, and had
several sons, whose descendants are scattered through Massachu-
setts and New-Hampshire. THOMAS, probably an elder brother
of the preceding, grad. at H. C. 1653 ; settled at Eastham, and was
living in 1698. His children were, Simon, b. 5 July, 1665 ; Sarah,
1667 ; Joseph, b. 27 Jan. 1669 ; John, and perhaps others. THO-
MAS, was an early inhabitant of Cambridge and Rowley.
CROSS, JOHN, Watertown, d. 15 Sept. 1640. ♦JOHN, Ips-
wich 1635, Hampton, freeman 1639, representative 1640, died a.
1652. ROBERT, Ipswich 1639, was one of the Pequod soldiers.
GROSSMAN, IIROBERT, member of the ar. co. 1644.
CROW, SAMUEL, Hadley 1671. Coffin.
CROWTHER, JOHN, Portsmouth 1631. Belknap, i. Hist. N.
H. 47. Adams, Annals Portsmouth, 18.
CRUTTENDEN, ABRAHAM, sen. and jr. were of Guilford in
1650.
CUDWORTH, f JAMES, Scituate, assistant of Plymouth colony
in 1656 and 1657, and afterwards deputy governour. Davis, Mor-
ton's Memo. 468.
CULLICK, |JOHN, Connecticut, was assistant in 1648. Capt.
John Cullick died in Boston, 23 Jan. 1663, and John Cullick grad.
at H. C. in 1668, and died before 1698.
CULVER, EDWARD, Dedham 1640, had sons, John, Joshua,
and Samuel .'^ This name exists in New-Hampshire.
CUMMINGS, ISAAC, whose name is also written Comins and
Cummins, was admitted freeman 1642, was an* early proprietor of
Watertown, and perhaps lived in Topsfield. A David Cummins d.
at Boston, 12 Dec. 1690. Eighteen of the name, Cuming, Cum-
ings, Cummens, Cumming, and Cummings, are on the catalogues
of the N. E. colleges. WILLIAM, Salem 1637.
CUNLIFFE, HENRY, Dorchester, where the name in the
church records is Condliffe, was admitted freeman 1644, and his
name is entered Cunlithe in the colony records, according to Mr.
Savage, but the records of Northampton, where he appears among
the first settlers, has the name as above.
CURRIER, RICHARD, Salisbury, was a member of the churbh
1675. Rev. Joseph Currier, H. C. 1765, and Seth Currier, a na-
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tive of Hopkinton, N. H., D. C. ^796, were the only graduates of the
name in New-England in 1825.
CURTIS, DEODATE, Braintree, a. 1643, had a son Solomon.
Of the name of Curtis, 24 had grad. at the N. E. colleges in 1825.
HENRY, Marblehead, came from England. His descendants are
in North-Bridgewater. See Cary's Genealogy, 39. HENRY, Sud-
bury 1641, where he d. 8 May, 1678. Son Ephraim was b. 1642.
Henry Curtis was one of the proprietors of Northampton 1653.
PHILIP, a lieutenant of Roxbury, was slain by the Indians at Has-
sanamesset, [Grafton, Ms.] 9 Nov. 1675. RICHARD, Marble-
head 1648. WILLIAM, Roxbury, freeman 1633, d. 8 Dec. 1672,
ae. 80. Sons, Thomas, who d. 1652 ; Isaac, b. 1642, and probably
others.
CURWIN, ♦GEORGE, was b. at Workington, in the county of
Cumberland, Eng., 10 Dec. 1610, came to N. E. and settled at Salem
1638, was admitted freeman 1665,, a selectman, captain, represent-
ative 1666, 9 years, and d. 6 Jan. 1685, ae. 74. He m. (1) Elizabeth,
widow of John White, by whom (whod. in 1668) he had, Elizabeth,
Abigail, Hannah, John, and Jonathan ; (2) Elizabeth Brooks in
1669, by whom he had, Penelope, George, who d. in infancy, and
Susanna. Capt. Cur win left an estate of 5964 pounds. His son
John, a captain, of Salem, freeman 1665, m. Margaret, daughter of
Gov. Winthrop, and d. 12 July, 1683, ae. 45. His wife d. 28 Sept.
1697. Felt, Annals, 274, 279. f* JONATHAN, son of the pre-
ceding, was bapt. at Salem, 17 Jan. 1641, freeman 1671, was elect-
ed representative 1689, one of the first council under the new char-
ter 1691, d. 9 June, 1718, 8b. 77. Matthias, Ipswich 1634, proba-
bly removed to South-Old, L, I. Wood, Hist. L. I. 34, where the
name is spelled Corwin, SAMUEL. A Samuel Curwin died at
Boston in Nov. 1698.
GUSHING, ♦DANIEL, Hingham, eldest son of Matthew Gush-
ing, was born in England, came to N. E. in 1638 ; was representa-
tive 1680, 1682, and 1695. His sons were Jeremiah and Theophi-
lus. For information of several persons of this name see 2 Coll.
Mass. Hist. Soc. x. Index. JEREMIAH, minister of the first
church in Scituate, was son of the preceding, and was born 3 July,
1654 ; grad. at H. C. 1676 ; ordained 27 May, 1691, and died 22
March, 1706, ae. 51. fJOHN, Hingham and Scituate, son of Mat-
thew Gushing, was b; in England, came t6 N. E. 1638, was a rep-
resentative, and a. 1690 an assistant of Plymouth colony. He was
the first representative from Scituate, under the charter of 1692.
His son and grandson were judges of the supreme court of Massa-
chusetts, and the latter, the Hon. William Gushing, was judge of
the supreme court of the U. S. He was born in Scituate, March,
1723, grad. at H. C. 1751, and d. 13 Sept. 1810. MATTHEW,
Hingham 1638, the great ancestor of the numerous respectable fam-
ilies of Cushings in N. E. arrived at Boston, 10 August, 1638, with
his wife, Nazareth Pitcher, and the following children : Daniel,
Jeremiah, Matthew, who m. 1652, Deborah, and John. He died
30 Sept. 1660, 8B. 72. Lincoln, Hist. Hingham, 46. Thirty of his
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descendants of the name of Gushing had grad. at H. C. in 1825, of
whom 8 were Clergymen, and a large proportion of them publick
characters. THEOPHILUS, Hingham, a. 1635, died in March,
1679, at the age of a. 100 years. Lincoln, Hist. Hingham, 41.
CUSHMAN, JAMES, Scituate between 1633 and 1657. 2 Coll.
Mass. Hist. Soc. iv. 240. Eleven persons of the name had grad. at
the N. E. colleges in 1826. ROBERT, arrived at Plymouth, 10
Nov. 1621, where he tarried only one month ; returned to Europe,
and d. in 1626. His family came to N. £. after his death, and his
descendants are numerous. Allen, Biog. Diet. 238. THOMAS,
Plymouth 1623, son of the preceding, m. Mary, daughter of Isaac
AUerton, and d. in 1691, se. 84. His widow d. in 1699, 8b. about
90. His son. Rev. Isaac Cushman, was the first minister of Plymp-
ton, Mass., was ordained 1698, and d. 1732, ae. 84.
CUTLER, JAMES, Watertown 1635, where his son James was
h. that year. Twenty-one of the name had grad. at the N. E. col-
leges in 1826. *JOHN, Charlestown, was representative in 1680
and 1682. He was probably the Major Cutler, father of Rev. Tim-
othy Cutler, D. D., of Boston, who d. 17 August, 1765, ae. 82.
ROBERT, a deacon of the church at Charlestown, died 7 March,
1665. His son Nathaniel, grad. at H. C. 1663, and d. 13 August,
1678.
CUTHBERTSON, CUTHBERT, Plymouth 1623. Davis,
Morton's Memo. Hon. Alfired Cuthbert, grad. at Princeton 1803.
James and John Cuthbert grad. at Y. C. in 1815 and 1816.
CUTT, JOHN, came from Wales to N. E. before 1646, and was
an eminent merchant in Portsmouth. He was appointed president
of N. H. in 1679, when this colony became a province, and entered
upon the duties of his office early in 1680. He d. 27 March, 1681.
President Cutt m. Hannah Star, 30 July, 166^, and their children
were, John, b. 30 June 1663 ; Elizabeth, b. 1664, d. 1665 ; Hannah,
b. 1666 ; Mary, b. 1669 ; and Samuel. A 2d wife, Ursula, or, as
she wrote the name, Ursilla, survived the president, and was killed
by the Indians. See Belknap, i. Hist. N. H. President Cutt left
an estate of ^9723 9 6 3-4. ♦RICHARD, Portsmouth, brother
of the preceding, was admitted freeman 1665, representative 1665,
and from 1669 to 1676, except 1671. He settled at the Isle of
Shoals, and carried on- the fisheries there ; afterwards lived in
Portsmouth in the great house at the bottom of Pitt street. He d.
a. 1676. Adams, Annals Portsmouth, 70. ROBERT, brother of
the preceding, went to Barbadoes soon after he came to N. E. ; firom
thence came to N. H. and lived at Great Island, now New-Castle. He
removed to Kittery, where he established a ship-yard, and carried
on the ship-building very extensively. Ibid. 70.
CUTTER, RICHARD, Cambridge, freeman 1641, member of
the ar. co. 1643, had children, Samuel, b. 1646 ; Thomas, b. 19
July, 1648 ; William, b. 22 Feb. 1650 ; Ephraim ; Gershom ; Na-
thaniel, b. 1663 ; Mary, Rebecca, and Hepzibah. ROBERT, Mas-
sachusetts, was admitted freeman 1638. ||WILLI AM, freeman 1633 ;
perhaps the member of ar. co. 1638. WILLIAM, freeman 1637.
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CUTTING, JOHN, Newbury, came from London, and settled
at Charlestown, afterwards at Newbury. He was Captain of a ves-
sel and made thirteen voyages across the Atlantick. He jd. 20 Nov,
1659. Coffin.
DADY, WILLIAM, Charlestown, freeman 1633, had sons,
Zachary, b. 1644 ; Nathaniel, who d. 25 April, 1665.
DAGGETT, JOHN, Watertown, 1642. Nine of the name of
Daggett had grad. at Y. C. in 1828, of whom was Rev. Naphtali
Daggett, D. D., president of that institution from 1766 to 1777.
He d. 25 Nov. 1780.
DAILLE, PETER, first minister of the French Protestant
church in Boston, came to N. £. in 1686, and d. 20 May, 1715, ae.
66* Worcester Magazine, ii. 349. Bowen*s Picture of Boston,
p. 129, calls him Paul, ' Neal in his Hist, of the Puritans, vol. iv.
p. 259, mentions a Daille of Paris.
DAKIN, THOMAS, Concord, 1660, had children, Joseph, John,
Samuel, and Sarah. Saipuel, a descendant, gra<}. at D. C. 1797.
DALTON, PHILEMON, Dedham, freeman 1636, went to
Hampton, from thence to Ipswich and d. there, 10 Nov. 1661,
leaving 3 children. His name is spelled Dolbon in the list of Mr.
Savage, ii. Winthrop, 336. *JSAMUEL, son of the preceding, was
born in 1635, settled in Hampton, which he represented 12 years
from 1662 , was one of the first council under president Cutt in
1680. TIMOTHY, the first teacher of the church in Hampton,
was brother to Philemon. He d. 28 Dec. 1661, without issue, and
Ruth, his widow, d. 12 May, 1666, both leaving wills. The minis-
terial funds in Hampton and North-Hampton arose from the liberal
donation of Mr. Dalton.
DAME, JOHN, Dover, whose name was formerly, and is now
sometimes, written Dam, had children, Elizabeth, b. 1649 ; Mary,
b. 1651 ; William, b. 4 Oct. 1653 ; Judith.
DAMON, JOHN, and ZACHARIAH, were soldiers of Scituate
in 1676. Rev. George Daman, of Tisbury, grad. at H. C. 1756,
Rev. Jude Damon, of Truro, grad. at H. C. 1776, and d. 19 Nov.
1828, 8B. 78. Rev. David Damon, of Amesbury, grad. at H. C.
1811. Edward Damon was of Marblehead in 1674.
DANA, RICHARD, Cambridge, a member of the church, m.
Ann Bullard, and had 12 children. He d. suddenly, a. 1695. Four of
his sons survived him, and are ancestors to the numerous families
of the name in the country. 1. Jacob was b. 2 Feb. 1655, ra. Pa-
tience, and had a son Jacob, b. in Cambridge 1679 ; went to Pom-
fr'^t. Conn., and was ancestor to the late Rev. Joseph Dana, D. D.,
tv/o of whose sons, Rev. Daniel Dana, a graduate and president of
D. C, and Rev. Samuel Dana, are ministers of Newburyport and
Marblehead ; 2. Joseph was born 21 May, 165- ; 3. Benjamin, born
April, 1660 ; 4. Daniel, b. 20 March, 1663, lived in Cambridge, and
was ancestor of Richard Dana, H. C. 1718, two of whose sons wpre
Rev. Edmund Dana, H. C. 1759, who d. at Wroxeter, England, in
1823, and Hon. Francis Dana, H. C. 1762, chief justice of Mass.
and minister to Russia, who d. at Cambridge, 25 April, 1811. s. 68.
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DANA. DANFORTH.
The Hon. Samuel Dana, of Amheret, N. H., who grad. at H. C.
1755., was a descendant from Daniel, through his son Caleb. The
Hon. Samuel Dapa, of Groton, is son, and Uie late professor, James
F. Dana, and Samuel L. Dana, both M. D.s and graduates of H. C.
in 1813 are grandsons of Judge Dana, of Amherst. Twentj-one
of the name of Dana had grad. at Harvard, Yale, and Dartmouth
Colleges in 1829.
DAND, JOHN, Massachusetts 1641. Winthrop, ii. Hist. N. E.
262, 292—295.
DANEy FRANCIS, the second minister of Andover, came
over, it is said, with Rev. Nathaniel Rogers in 1636. He was or-
dained a. 1648, and died 17 Feb. 1697, in his 82d year. Mary, his
wife, d. in March, 1689, and he m. Hannah, the widow of George
Abbot, and she d. in June, 1711. He left two sons, Nathaniel, who
d. 1725, 86. 80, having had 3 sons; and Francis, who d. 1738, 8e.81.
leaving sons, Francis, John, Joseph, and Daniel. JOHN, Ipswich
1648, brother of the preceding, was born a. 1618, and is ancestor
to the Non. Nathan Dane, LL. D., of Beverly, who grad. at H. C.
1778. THOMAS, Concord. (See Dean.)
DANFORTH, » JONATHAN, Billerica 1653, was son of Nich-
olas Danforth, and was born at Framlingham, in Suffolk, England,
29 Feb. 1628, came with his father to N. E. in 1634 ; m. 22 Nov.
1655, Elizabeth, daughter of John Poulter, and had 11 children, of
whom 6 were sons, but only two of them lefl issue, Jonathan, born
in 1656, and Samuel, b. in 1666. He was the first captain of Bil-
lerica, was chosen representative in 1684, town clerk 20 years, and
one of the most eminent land surveyors of his time. He d. 7 Sept.
17 J 2, ae. 84, leaving a widow, who was a second wife. Hist. Me-
moir Billerica, 5, 14. JOHN, the seventh minister of Dorchester,
was son of Rev. Samuel Danforth, of Roxbury, and was born 8 Nov.
1660, grad. at H. C. 1677, was ordained 28 June, 1682 ; d. 26 May,
1730, £. 70. Pres. Allen and Dr. Harris erroneously state his age
at 78. He was father of Elijah Danforth, b. 1683, grad. at H. C.
1703, a physician at Castle-William, now Fort Independence, who
died 8. October, 1736, aged 53, and of Hon. Samuel Danforth
H, C. 1715, a counsellor and judge of the court of common pleas,
and of probate in Middlesex county, and a mandamus counsellor
in 1774, who d. 2 Oct. 1777, ae. 81. The last was father of the
late Samuel Danforth, M. D., of Boston, who d. 16 Nov. 1827, ae.
87. ♦NICHOLAS, Cambridge, came from Framlingham, in Suf-
folk, to N. E. in 1634, was admitted freeman in 1636, was a repre-
sentative in 1636 and 1637, and d. in April 1637, leaving sons,
Thomas, Samuel, and Jonathan; and daughters, Anna, who m.
Matthew Bridge, of Cambridge, and Elizabeth, wife of Andrew
Belcher, and grandmother of Gov. Belcher. SAMUEL, the third
minister of Roxbury, was son of the preceding, and b. in England,
Sept. 1626; grad. at H. C. 1643 ; admitted freeman 1648; was or-
dained as colleague with Rev. John Eliot, 24 Sept. 1650 ; died 19
Nov. 1674, 8B. 48. His wife was a daughter of Rev. John Wilson,
of Boston, whom he m. in 1651, and by whom he had 12 children.
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SAMUEL^ minister of Taunton, son of the preceding, was born at
Roxbury, 18 Dec. 1666, grad. at H. C. 1683, d. 14 Nov. 1727. He
was esteemed one of the most learned and eminent ministers of that
period. *Jf THOMAS, Cambridge, son of Nicholas Danforth, was
born in England in 1622, came with his father to N. E. in 1634 ;
admitted freeman 1643, elected representative 1657 and 1658, as-
sistant from 1659 to 1678, 20 years, deputy governour 1679 to 1686,
eight years, and three years after the revolution in 1689, and once,
in 1684, came within 61 votes of being elected governour. He was
appointed by the general court of Mass. president of Maine, 11 May,
1681, and repaired for a short time to that territory. He was also
a judge of the superiour court of Mass. and sustained other impor-
tant offices. He d. 5 Nov. 1699, ». 77. He m. Mary, daughter of
Henry Withington, 2 Feb. 1644, and had 12 children, of whom
were Samuel, b. 5 Oct. 1652, grad. at H. C. 1671, a distinguished
scholar, who d. in London, of small pox, 22 Dec. 1676, and Jona-
than, b. 10 Feb. 1659, grad, at H. C. 1679, and d. 13 Nov. 1682,
President Danforth left posterity in the female line. WILLIAM,
Newbury 1667, had sons, William, Jonathan, and others. His de-
scendants are in New-Hampshire, several of whom write the name
Dan ford.
DANIEL, RICHARD, Billerica, 1675, lived also in Andover,
and is noticed by Gookin, in his account of the Indians. ROBERT,
Watertown and Cambridge, was admitted freeman 1638, and d. at
Cambridge, 6 July, 1655. THOMAS, Cambridge, d. Nov. 1644.
^THOMAS, Kittery 1652, perhaps afterwards of Portsmouth, and
one of the first council of N. H. under President Cutt, 1680. WIL-
LIAM, Massachusetts, was admitted freeman in 1648.
DANIELS, WENTWORTH, Lynn 1640. Lewis.
DARLEY, DENNIS, was an early inhabitant of Braintree.
DARLING, JOHN, Braintree, between 1660 and 1690. Thir-
teen of the name of Darling had grad. at the N. E. colleges in 1828.
DARMAN, JOHN, Braintree 1644, had sons, John, b. 1644 ;
Joseph, b. 1645 ; John, 2d, b. 1653.
DART, AMBROSE, Boston 1654.
DARVELL, ROBERT, Sudbury, died 26 Feb. 1662.
DASSET, JOHN, Braintree, freeman 1641, had a son Joseph,
b. 6 Dec. 1642. John, perhaps his son, was of Braintree, admitted
freeman in 1657, m. Hannah Flint, of Concord, 15 Sept. 1662, and
Joseph Dasset, H. C. 1687, was probably their son.
DAUTS, ROBERT, Massachusetts, was admitted freeman in
1643.
DAVENISH, THOMAS, Salem,. admitted to the church 1641,
and freeman same year.
DA VENPOR T, JOHN, the first minister of New-Haven, and
the fourth of the first church in Boston, was son of the mayor of
Coventry, and probably Henry Davenport, who sustained that office
in 1613. See Dugdale*s Antiquities of Warwickshire. He was b.
in 1597 ; was educated at the university of Oxford, (Rev. Mr. Dodd
says, at Brazen-Nose College) came to N. E. 26 June, 1637, and
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the next year settled at New-Haven. He removed to Boston, and
was installed the successor of Rev. John Wilson, 9 Dec. 1668, and
d. 15 or 12 March, 1670, ae. 73. Twelve of the name had grad. at
the N. E. colleges in 1828. JOHN, New-Haven, son of the pre-
ceding, might be the John Davenport, jr., of Boston, admitted free-
man in 1669. He m. Abigail, daughter of Rev. Abraham Pierson,
27 Nov. 1663, and had John ; Elizabeth ; Abigail, who m. Rev.
James Pierpont ; John, 2d, the following, and Mary. JOHN^ min-
ister of Stamford, Conn., son of the preceding, was born 1670, grad.
at H. C. 1687 ; was ordained 1694 ; died 5 Feb. 1731, s 61. By
two wives he had 8 children, whose posterity are numerous in Con-
necticut. *RICHARD, was born a. 1606, and arrived at Salem
with Governour Endecott in Sept. 1628; was representative in
1637 from Salem, where he resided until 1642. He was afterwards
commander at Castle-Island, in Boston harbour, many years, and
was killed by lightning, 15 July, 1665, ae. 59. Capt. Davenport, of
Boston, who was killed by the Indians, 19 Dec. 1675, in taking
Narraganset Fort, was his son. Prince, i. Annals, 174. Hutchin-
son, i. Hist. Mass. 232. Johnson, Hist. N. E. 194. THOMAS,
Dorchester, member of the church 1640, freeman 1642, had sons,
Jonathan and Eleazar.
DAVIE, JOHN, was a magistrate of Boston in 1680. Edmund
Davie grad. at H. C. 1674, went to Europe and took the degree of
M. D. at Padua. John Davie, grad. at H. C. 1681, became heir to
an estate in England, from which he derived the title of baronet.
Holmes, i. Annals, 511.
DAVIS, DOLOR, Cambridge 1634, a proprietor of Groton in
1656, and according to S. Davis, esq. of Plymouth, an early planter
and freeman at Barnstable, where he d. in 1673. He m. Margery,
sister of major Simon Willard. His sons were John, Simon, and
Samuel. Simon and Samuel lived in Concord, the former of whom
was representative in 1689. The name of Davis has been very
common in N. E. and in other parts of our country, and had, in 1828,
furnished from 50 to 60 graduates at the N. E., N. Y., and N. J.
colleges. In several ancient records some of the following names
are spelled Davies, DANIEL, Kittery was admitted freeman 1652.
GEORGE, Boston, freeman 1645, was probably one of the founders
of the 2d church. Snow, Hist. Boston, 129. Samuel and John,
sons of George Davis, were b. in Boston, 1651 and 1652. GEORGE,
Lynn and Reading, freeman 1647, d. at Reading, 4 July, 1667.
ISAAC, was an inhabitant of Beverly in 1659. *JAMES, Haver-
hill, was representative at the 2d session in 1660, and probably the
freeman of 1640. He d. 19 Jan. 1679, ae. 90. James Davis, sup-
posed his son, d. at Haverhill, 18 July, 1694. JAMES, Boston, a
mariner, was member of the church, and perhaps the freeman of
1635; had a son Jacob, b. in 1639. JENKIN, Lynn, 1637, was
a joiner, and d. in 1662, leaving one son and one daughter.
Winthrop, ii. Hist. N. E. 45. Coffin. Lewis. JOHN, Boston, a
joiner, was member of the church in 1635, and perhaps member
of the ar. co. 1643. There was a John Davis of Watertown, a. 1642.
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JOHN, Newbury 1644, had sons, John, b. 15 Jan. 1645 ; Zachar
ry, b. 1646 ; Jeremy, b. 1648 ; Cornelius, b. 1653 ; Ephraim, b.
1655v He had also several daughters. JOHN, from New-Haven,
grad. at H. C. 1651, and was lost at sea with Jonathan Ince and
Nathaniel Pelham in 1657. Savage, ii. Winthrop, 329. JOHN,
Kittery, was admitted freeman and appointed to keep an ordinary
there in 1652. JOHN, Dover 1653, had children, Hannah, b. 1653 ;
J^ne, b. 1655; Moses, b. 30 Dec. 1657; Joseph, b. 26 Jan. 1659;
Jane, 2d, and James, b. 23 May, 1662, a col., who d. 1749, s. 87, leav-
ing children,. James, who d. aged 93 ; Thomas, 88 ; Samuel, 99; Dan-
iel, 65 ; Sarah, 91 ; Hannah, 77 ; Elizabeth, 79 ; Ephraim, 87 ; and
Phebe, 85. Belknap, iii. Hist. N. H. 188, 189. NICHOLAS,
Woburn 1643, perhaps the same who was admitted freeman at Kit-
tery in 1652. NICHOLAS, a merchant of Barnstable in 1643,
favoured the quakers on their first appearance in 1656 ; d. in 1673.
S. Davis, esq., MS letter. ROBERT, Yarmouth 1638, removed
to Barnstable, had sons, John, Robert, Josiah, and Tristram, born
from 1650 to 1664. Ibid. ROBERT, Sudbury, 1644. Shattuck.
SAMUEL, Boston, freeman 1645, had a son Samuel, b. in 1654.
|SYLVANUS, Sheepscot, Maine 1675, a captain in the Indian
war, was wounded by the Indians, 1675, (Hubbard, 41) and was
one of the counsellors under the new charter of William and Mary,
granted in 1691. His statement respecting the eastern fisheries
and settlements is in the 3 Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. i. 101. THO-
MAS, Newbury 1641, was one of the first settlers of Haverhill.
THOMAS, an early settler at Biddeford, Me., (then Saco) was as-
sessed for publick worship in, 1636. S. Davis, esq. THOMAS,
was secretary of the province of N. H. in 1693. WILLIAM, Rox-
bury 1642, d. 9 Dec. 1683, m. 66. His son John was b. in 1643,
was an officer, and d. 1 1 March, 1717. Tobias Davis d. at Rox-
bury in 1690, and John and William Davis d. there in 1706.
*^| WILLIAM, Boston, freeman 1645, member of the ar. co. 1643,
its captain from 1664 to 1672 ; was commander of a company of
troop in Ninigret's war ; represented Springfield in 1652, and per-
haps Haverhill in 1669. He m., 5 Dec. 1644, Margaret, daughter
of William Pynchon, and his children, by his former wife and by
her, were, Thomas, who d. 1636 ; Tierne, [?] b. 1542 ; Joseph, b.
1645 ; Thomas ; Benjamin, a major, who lived in Boston, and died
26 Nov. 1704, and William.
DAVISON, IIDANIEL, Ipswich 1665, removed to Newbury, and
was a man of note there, a major of the Essex regiment ; member of
the ar. co. 1672. He had a number of children.
DAVY, DANIEL, Kittery 1652. George Davy was an inhabi-
tant at, or near, Wiscasset, Me., as early as 1666. |||*HUM-
PHREY, Boston, freeman 1665, was a non-resident representative
of Billerica 4 years, from 1666 to 1669, and for his services receiv-
ed, by vote of the town, the present of " a fat beast ;" represented
Woburn in 1678 ; was member of the ar. co. 1665; and was elect-
ed assistant from 1679 to 1686. JOHN, Boston, freeman 1637,
perhaps the magistrate of Boston in 1680, and father of the preced-
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ing and the two graduates at H. C, Edmund and John Davie, was
among those disarmed by order of government in 1637. Savage,
i. Winthrop, 248.
DAWES, WILLIAM, Boston, freeman 1646, died 24 March,
1703, se. 86. He had sons, Ambrose, born in Braintree, 25 July,
1642 ; William and Robert, b. in Boston, a. 1655 and 1656. Three
of the name, Thomas, Ebenezer, and Thomas, grad. at H. C. in
1777, 1785, and 1801.
DAWSON, HENRY, Massachusetts, was admitted freeman in
1641.
DAY, MATTHEW, probably the first printer in North-America,
and the one mentioned by Gov. Winthrop, who came to N. E. in
1639. His name is found in the imprint of one or more works pub-
lished before 1648. He was admitted freeman in 1646, and died at
Cambridge, IQ May, 1649. NATHANIEL, Ipswich 1637. Kim-
ball, Eccl. Sermon. RALPH, Massachusetts, was admitted free-
man 1645. ROBERT, Cambridge, was admitted freeman 1635,
and probably went to Connecticut, where ten persons of the name
had received the honours of Yale College in 1828, of whom is the
president of the institution, Jeremiah Day, D. D., LL. D., who grad.
in 1795. ROBERT, freeman 1641, was of Ipswich in 1648.
STEPHEN, Cambridge, is considered by Dr. Thomas, in his Hist,
of Printing, as the first printer in this country, who commenced
business in March, 1639. He d. 22 Dec. 1668, se. 58. Dr. Tho-
mas gives a catalogue of the books supposed to be printed by him,
in vol. ii. p. 231—234 of his History. ||WENTWORTH, was a
member of the ar. co. 1640.
DAYTON, RALPH, East-Hampton, L. I., 1650. Three of the
name, Jonathan, LL. D., Thomas B. C, and Aaron O. grad. at N.
J. College, in 1776, 1806, and 1813.
DEACON, JOHN, Lynn 1637. Lewis. Goodman Deacon, of
Hadley, was killed by the Indians in March, 1676. Hubbard.
DEAN, DANIEL, a lieutenant, and an early proprietor of Con-
cord, d. 29 Nov. 1725, ae. 97. Shattuck. JOHN, freeman 1641,
may have been the John Dane of Ipswich. Thirteen of the name
of Dean and Deane had received the honours of the N. E. colleges
in 1828. SAMUEL, Lancaster 1653. STEPHEN, Plymouth
1623. THOMAS, Boston 1665. 2 coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. viii.
105. THOMAS, Concord 1645, whose name is often spelled
Dancy d. 5 Feb. 1676. Elizabeth, his wife, d. 1673. His son
Joseph m. Elizabeth Fuller 1662, and had sons, Thomas, b. 1664 ;
Joseph, b. 1667 ; and Daniel, b. 1669. Shattuck.
DEARBORN, GODFREY, came form Exeter, England, with
his son Henry, " a man grown," and settled at Exeter in 1639. He
removed to Hampton, where he m. Dorothy Dalton, probably the
widow of Philemon, 25 Nov. 1662. His descendants are abundant
in N. H. Gen. Henry Dearborn is from this family.
DEERING, HENRY, was a schoolmaster at Salisbury in 1664.
Two of the name of Deering have grad. at H. C. and two writing it
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Dering have grad. at Y. C. SAMUEL, Braintree 1649, had daugh-
ters, Bethia, Mary, Hannah, and Sarah, b. from 164S to 1657.
DELANO, PHILIP, Plymouth 1623. The name was first spell- .
ed De la Noye, by which we may conclude that he was a French
protestant who had united himself to the church of Leyden. Sav-
age, MS note.
DELL, GEORGE, fi-eeman 1651, had sons, John, b. 1645; Sam-
uel, b. 1647 ; Joseph, b. 1649 ; Benjamin, b. 1652. There is a no-
tice of one Dell in i. Winthrop, 312.
DEMING, JOHN, whose name is Darning in the colony records,
was admitted freeman in 1645. Eight of the name of Deming had
grad. in N. E. in 1828, of whom Rev. David, H. C. 1700, was min-
ister of Medway. John Deming was named in the charter of Con-
necticut in 1662.
DENISON, |||*DANIEL, son of William Denison, was of Cam-
bridge in 1633, freeman 1634, when he removed to Ipswich, which
he represented 8 years from 1635. He was a captain in 1637, ma-
jor in 1648, member of the ar. co. 1660, speaker of the house of
reps. 1649 and 1651, major-general, a. 1662, assistant 29 years,
from 1654 to 1682. He d. 20 Sept. 1682, as. 70. He m. Patience,
daughter of Gov. Thomas Dudley. Thirteen of the name had grad.
at the N. E. colleges in 1828. *EDWARD, Roxbury, was disarm-
ed in 1637, admitted freeman 1648, was representative in 1652 and
1655, and d. 26 April, 1668. He had sons, John, b. 1644 ; Ed-
ward, Jeremiah, and Joseph, some of whom d. young. GEORGE,
Roxbury, was born in 1621, admitted freeman 1648, is mentioned
by Winthrop as " a young soldier lately come out of the wars in
England,'' and as being chosen captain by the young men in Rox-
bury in 1647. He probably removed to Stonington, Conn., and
much distinguished himself in Philip's war in 1675. Hubbard, In-
dian Wars, 97. JOHN, Ipswich 1648, was probably a brother of
Major-general Denison. JOHN, only, son of Major-gen. Denison,
d. 9 Jan. 1671, leaving a wife Martha, daughter of Deputy-go vern-
our Samuel Symonds, and children, John and Martha. Martha m.
Matthew Whipple, and d. 12 Sept. 1728, ae. 60. JOHN, the sixth
minister of Ipswich, was son of the preceding, and grad. at H. C.
1684, was ordained colleague with Rev. William Hubbard in 1687,
and d. in Sept. 1689. His wife was Elizabeth, daughter of Hon.
Nathaniel Saltonstall, by whom he had one son, Col. John Denison,
who grad. at H. C. 1710. She afterwards m. Rev. Rowland Cotton.
THOMAS, Kittery 1652. •WILLIAM, Roxbury, freeman 1632,
was Representative in 1635, was among the disarmed in 1637, and
d. 25 Jan. 1653 or 4, '' an old man," say the Roxbury Records.
His wife d. in 1646.
DENMARK, PATRICK, New-Hampshire 1664.
DENNET, JOHN, Portsmouth, freeman J 672, had a son Ephraim,
b. 2 Aug. 1683, who was one of the counsellors of New-Hampshire,
appointed by mandamus in 1732.
DENNING, WILLIAM, Boston, d. 20 Jan. 1654.
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DENNIS, EDMUND, Boston, 164a THOMAS, Boston, had
a son Thomas, b. in 1630.
DENNY, EDWARD, was admitted freeman in 1637. Thomas
Denny was admitted freeman 1669.
DENSLOW, NICHOLAS, Massachusetts, freeman 1633.
DENT, FRANCIS, Massachusetts, was admitted freeman in
1634.
DENTON, RICHARD, Dorchester, d. 28 Dec. 1668. RICH^
ARD, minister of Weathersfield and Stamford, in Conn, and
Hempstead, L. I., died at the last place in 1663. Johnson erro-
neously calls him Lenten, and Mr. Savage adds this name to his list
of minister^ in the 2d volume of Winthrop. Wood [Hist. Towns
on Long-Island] says that he had been a minister at Halifax, York-
shire, and that he came to N. E. between 1630 and 1635.
DERBY, JOHN, Beverly, a. 1680, lefl issue. There was an
Edward Derby of Braintree 1690. Of this name there have been
several distinguished merchants, and seven have grad. at H. C. and
one at Bowdoin college.
DESBOROUGH, fjOHN, was a magistrate of New-Haven 1637.
Major-general John Desborough is mentioned in 1 Coll. of Mass.
Hist. Soc. X. 98. SAMUEL, New-Haven 1639, was one of the
first settlers and founders of the church at Guilford 1643. He re-
turned to England in 1651, represented the city of Edinburgh in
parliament, and in 1656, was returned as a member of the British
parliament for the Sheriffdom of Mid-Lothian. Noble, ii. Memoirs
of the Cromwell family, 254. There was a Nicholas Desborough
of Hartford in 1683, who is mentioned in the Magnalia, ii. 393.
DEVEL, or DEVELL, WILLIAM, Braintree, had a son John,
bom there, a. 1643.
DEVEREUX, JOHN, Salem, 1637, Marblehead 1648. John
Devereux, freeman in 1683. Burrill and Humphrey Devereux, H.
C. 1767 and 1798, are probably his descendants.
DEVOTION, EDWARD, Roxbury, freeman 1645, d. 28 Sept.
1685, 8B. 64. Ebenezer Devotion, H. C. 1707, was the minister of
Suffield, Conn, and was probably father of Rev. Ebenezer Devotion,
Y. C. 1732, and ancestor of Rev. John, Ebenezer, John, and Sam-
uel H. Devotion, graduates at Yale College.
DEWEY, •JONATHAN, Westfield, representative in 1689 and
1691. Jedidiah, Joseph, and Thomas Dewey, were of Westfield in
1679. Ten of the name had grad. at the N. E. colleges in 1828.
DEWING, ANDREW, Dedham, was admitted freeman in 1646.
DEXTER, GREGORY, a native of London, was a stationer,
but became a preacher, and settled in Providence over the Baptist
church in 1643. He d. in his 91st year. Twelve persons of the
name had been educated at Harvard, Yale, and Brown colleges in
1828. RICHARD, Charlestown 1644. THOMAS, Lynn, 1630
was admitted freeman 1631. He owned 800 acres of land, and
was commonly called " Farmer " Dexter. He lived near the Iron
works on Saugiis river. He was one of the proprietors of Sandwich
in 1637. Mr. Lewis gives some account of the impetuosity of his
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temper, and the publick censures to which it exposed him. He
had a son Thomas, of Lynn. Lewis, MS Hist. Lynn. Sav-
age, i. Winthrop, 53.
DIBBLE, ABRAHAM, Boston, 1648. Robert Dibble was of
Massachusetts, and admitted freeman in 1635. THOMAS, Dor-
chester, freeman 1637, removed to Windsor, and was probably
ancestor of Rev. Ebenezer Dibble, D. D., of John and John Alexis
Dibble, who grad. at Y. C. 1734, 1758 and 1778.
DICKERMAN, THOMAS, Dorchester, 1636, freeman 1638,
had a son Isaac b. in 1637.
DICKINSON, JOHN, Salisbury 1640. Twenty-seven of the
name had been educated at the N. E. colleges in 1825. ' PHILE-
MON, Salem, freeman 1641, removed from thence. Nathaniel
Dickinson was of Hadley in 1663. THOMAS, Rowley, 1643, d.
1662, leaving a son James and 4 daughters.
DICKSON, WILLIAM, Cambridge, 1642. See (Dixon.)
DILLINGHAM, EDWARD, Lynn, 1636, removed to Sandwich
1637. Lewis. William H. and Charles Dillingham are on the cat-
alogue of Williams College. JOHN, freeman 18 May, 1631,
appears to have been one of the first settlers of Ipswich.
DIMAN, or DIMOND, JOHN, Lynn, 1647. One of the same
name was of Kittery in 1652. Five persons of the name of Dia-
mond, Diman, and Dimon had grad. at Harv. and Yale in 1828.
DINELY, THOMAS, Boston, d. 15 Jan. 1655. WILLIAM,
Boston, was a member of the church, and admitted freeman in
1635.
DINGLEY, JOHN, Lynn, removed to Sandwich 1637, in the
vicinity of which his descendants abound. Amasa Dingley grad. at
H. C. 1785. RICHARD, a Baptist minister of Newport, went to
South-Carolina in 1694. Benedict.
DINNY, EDWARD, perhaps the same as Denny, was admitted
freeman in 1637. (See Denny.)
DINSDALE, IIWILLIAM, Boston, freeman 1657, member of
the ar. co. 1658. Son John b. in 1644. Thomas Dinsdale was
admitted freeman in 1660.
DISBEROE, ISAAC, Lynn 1638. [Lewis.] Samuel Disber-
ough grad. at N. J. College in 1822.
DIVEN, JOHN, Lynn, 1643, d. 4 Oct. 1684. Lewis.
DIX, ANTHONY, Plymouth, 1623, admitted freeman 1631,
Salem 1637. This is the same person, whose loss, under the name
of Dick, is recorded by Winthrop, i. 287. Savage, MS note. ED-
WARD, Watertown, admitted freeman 1635, haul a son John, b. in
1640. Edmund Dix, perhaps the same, was of Watertown in 1637,
and d. 9 July, 1660. There was a Ralph Dix of Ipswich in 1648.
Five of the name of Dix had grad. at H. C. in 18$^.
DIXEY, JOHN, Salem 1639. Felt, Annals of Salem, 126.
THOMAS, Salem 1637, Marblehead 1674, d. 1691. WILLIAM,
arrived at Cape Ann in June, 1629, settled in Salem, was admitted
freepan 1634; was an ensign of the militia, and died 1690, ». 82.
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DIXON, JEREMIAH and JOHN, were of New-Haven in 1639.
Five of their descendants have grad. at Yale College. WILLIAM,
Cambridge, whose name is Dickson in the colony records, but Dix-
on in Cambridge town records, was admitted freeman in 1642.
His wife was Jane, and his children were Lydia, Abigail, Mary,
Hannah, and John. There was a William Dixon of Kittery in 1653,
but not the one of Cambridge.
DIXWELL, JOHN, a colonel, and one of the judges, who con-
demned Charles I to death, came to N. £. and lived at New-Haven
under the name of Davids, married there and left several children.
He d. 18 march, 1689, in his 82d year. Descendants through fe-
male lines remain, of whom one, a respectable physician of Boston,
has assumed the name of this regicide.
DOANE, :|:JOHN, Plymouth, was an assistant of Plymouth
colony in 1633, removed to Eastham, a. 1644, was living there in
1678, very aged. Isaiah, Elisha, George, and Augustus-Sidney
Doane grad. at H. C. in 1774, 1781, 1812, and 1826.
DODGE, GEORGE, Concord 1645. Shattuck. •JOHN, born
1636, was an inhabitant of Beverly in 1666, and appears to have
been representative of Rowley 1664. See Coll. N. H. Hist. Soc.
ii. 222, 226. RICHARD, Salem, was received to the church, 5
May, 1644, and was one of the founders of the church in Beverly
1667, where he probably lived. WILLIAM, Salem, was admitted
freeman 1637, was one of the founders of the church in Beverly 1667.
He is mentioned by Hubbard, Indian Wars, p. 59. *WILLIAM^
son of the preceding, was of Beverly, admitted freeman 1683, repre-
sentative, 28 May 1690. Daniel Dodge was a graduate at H. C. 1700.
DOE, NICHOLAS, Oyster River, now Durham, N. H., 16G9,
in the vicinity of which his descendants remain.
DOGGETT, JOHN, Watertown, freeman 1631. (See Daggett.)
THOMAS, Concord, d. 23 August, 1642. Shattuck.
DOLE, GEORGE, Lynn 1637, removed to Sandwich 1637.
Lewis. RICHARD, was born 1614, came from Somersetshire,
England, 1640, with Percival Lowle, and settled at Newbury. He
m. Hannah, daughter of widow Rolfe, 3 May, 1647, and had issue, 1.
John, b. 10 August, 1648, m. 23 Oct. 1677, Mary, daughter of Capt.
William Gerrish ; 2. Richard, b. 6 Sept. 1650, m. Sarah Greenleaf,
1677 ; 3. Anna, b. 1653 ; 4. Benjamin, b. 1654 ; 5. Joseph, b. 1657 ;
6. William, b. 1660; 7. Henry, b. 1663; 8. Hannah, b. 1665; 9.
Apphia, b. 1668 ; 10. Abner, b. 1672. He m. a. 2d wife, Hannah,
widow of Capt. Samuel Brocklebank, of Rowley. Coffin.
DONNELL, HENRY, Kittery, was admitted freeman 1652.
|SAMUEL, was a magistrate of York, judge of the court of com-
mon pleas, one of the first council under the charter of William and
Mary 1692, d. 9 March, 1718, e. 72. Douglass by mistake calls
him Daniel,
DOOLITTLE, JOHN, Lynn 1643, Rumney Marsh [Chelsea!
1653. Lewis. Snow, Hist. Boston, 137. Six of the name had
grad. at Y. C. in 1628, of whom Benjamin, 1716, was a clergyman,
and Joel, 1799, has been a judge in Vermont.
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DORMAN. DOWNING.
DORCHESTER, ANTHONY, Springfield, d. 9 Nov. 1649.
DORMAN, EDMUND, New-Haven 1639. THOMAS, one of
the first settlers of Ipswich was admitted fi-eeman in 1635, perhaps
d. at Topsfield in 1670.
DORR, EDWARD, Roxbury, had a son Edward, who d. in
1683. Fourteen of the name had received their education at the
N. E. colleges in 1828, ten of them at Harvard.
DORRIL, JOHN, Boston, d. 3 March; 1704.
DOR YF ALL, BARNABY, Braintree, was admitted freeman in
1636.
DOTEY, EDWARD, one of the servants of Stephen Hopkins of
Plymouth 1620, and one of the combatants in the first duel in N. E.
18 June, 1621. Prince, i. Annals, 105. Samuel Doty grad. at
Y. C. 1733.
DOUGHTY, [SAMUEL?] a preacher, it would seem from
Lechford, as quoted by Hutchmson, at Taunton in 1639. Charles
J. Doughty grad. at Y. C. in 1806.
DOUBLEDAY, ROGER, Boston, d. 22 Nov. 1690.
DOUGLASS, HENRY, Massachusetts, was admitted freeman
in 1657. WILLIAM, Boston, freeman 1646, had a son William b.
in 1645.
DOW, FRANCIS, came from Salisbury, in England, and settled
at Salisbury as early as 1651. Coffin. •HENRY, Watertown,
freeman 1642, was probably the same who was representative of
Hampton in 1655 and 1656, and where, probably, he d. in 1659.
He had sons, Joseph and Daniel, b. in Watertown, in 1638 and
1641. Henry Dow, was a mandamus counsellor of N. H. in 1702.
THOMAS, one of the grantees of Newbury, settled in Salisbury,
was admitted freeman 1642, and d. 31 May, 1654, leaving children
Thomas, Stephen, and Mary. Jonathan Dow, esq. of Weare, a
member of the convention which adopted the constitution of the
U. S., and a representative in the N. H. legislature, was from this
family.
DOWDY, GEORGE, Massachusetts, was admitted freeman in
1645. HENRY, Guilford, Conn. 1650.
DOWMAN, or DORMAN, THOMAS, d. at Topsfield, 1670,
ffi. 70.
DOWNHAM, JOHN, Plymouth, a deacon of the church, d. 1668
aged a. 80. Davis, Morton's Memo.
DOWNING, DENNip, Kittery 1652. •EMANUEL, Salem,
was admitted, with Lucy his wife, to the church in Salem, 4 Nov.
1638, freeman Dec. 1638, representative 1639, five years. His
children were George ; John, bapt. 1 March, 1640 ; Dorcas, b. 7
Feb. 1641 ; Theophilus, bapt. 13 March, 1642. A John Downing
d. at Boston, 29 April, 1694, and a Richard Downing, of Ipswich,
d. there, 3 Nov. 1702. GEORGE, son of the preceding, was born
in London^ grad. at H. C. 1642, went to England 1645, and sus-
tained various offices under Cromwell and Charles II, and by the
last was made a baronet, 1 July, 1662, his residence being then at
East Hatley, in Cambridgeshire. [Guillim's Heraldry.] He m.
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about 1654, Frances Howard, and d. in 1684, s. about 59. His
son George m. Catharine, eldest daughter of James, Earl of Salisbury.
Their son George d. in 1747, without issue, and left a bequest for
founding a college at Cambridge, England, now called Downing
college, which bequest now amounts to «£150,000. Hutchinson,
i. Hist. Mass. 107. Savage, ii. Winthrop, 240—242. Felt, Annals
Salem, 168.
DOWNS, THOMAS, Boston 1652, perhaps of Dover 1663.
DOWSE, FRANCIS, Boston 1643. Jonathan, Edward, and
Joseph Dowse grad. at H. C. in 1715, 1725, and 1766. LAW-
RENCE, a carpenter of Boston, was admitted to the church in
1643.
DRAKE, ABRAHAM, Exeter, 1646, removed to Hampton,
where he was marshal. There was a Robert Drake of Hampton in
1668, and in 1686, Abraham Drake, jr. and Nathaniel Drake were
of New-Hampshire. JOHN, came to N. E. as early as 1630, in
which year, on 19 October, he requested to be made a freeman.
There was a Thomas Drake of Weymouth in 1660, and a Job
Drake of Westfield, a. 1667.
DRAPER, JAMES, one of the proprietors of Lancaster 1654.
One of the same name d. at Roxbury in 1697. Nine have been
educated at the N. E. colleges. NICHOLAS, Salem 1637.
ROGER, Concord 1639, had children Adam and Lydia.
DRAYTON, JOHN, Maine 1642.
DRESSER, JOHN, Rowley 1643, d. 1672. Coffin. •JOHN,
freeman 1684, was representative in 1691.
DREW, THOMAS, Oyster River, now Durham, N. H. 1669.
This family suffered by the Indians in 1694 or 1695. See Belknap.
DRINKER, PHILIP, Massachusetts, freeman 1637. Edward
Drinker was one of the founders of the first Baptist church in Bos-
ton, 1665.
DRIVER, ROBERT, Lynn 1630, freeman 1635, d. according
to Mr. Lewis, 3 April, 1680, sb. 88. Phebe, his wife, d. in Feb.
1683. The fate of his son Robert is recorded in the Magnalia, B.
vi Lewis.
DRUCE, VINTON, 1639. Lincoln, Hist. Hingham. There
was a Vincent Druce of Cambridge, who had a son John, b. there
in 1669. John Druce, probably from this family, grad. at H. C.
1738. JOHN, was killed by the Indians, the first year of Philip's
war.
DRURY, IIHUGH, member of the ar. co. 1659, was of Boston,
where his son John was b. in 1646. Ephraim, John, and Luke
Drury grad. at Harvard, Williams, and Brown Colleges in 1776,
1804, and 1813. JOHN, Massachusetts, was admitted freeman in
1654.
DUDLEY, FRANCIS, Concord, m. Sarah Wheeler, 26 Oct.
1665, and had a number of children. HUGH, of Springfield, a.
1654, is named in Sprague's Hist. Discourse. §tt||*JOSEPH,
Roxbury, son of Gov. Thomas Dudley, by his last wife, was b. 23
July, 1647, grad. at H. C. 1665, was representative 1673 to 1675,
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member of the ar. co. 1677, was elected an assistant 1676 to 1685;
appointed president of Mass. and N. H. 1686, a member of Sir
Edmund Andros' council 1687, chief justice of Mass., went to
England 1682, again in 1689, and wb^ eight years governour of
the Isle of Wight, He returned to N. E. 11 June, 17& as govern-
our of Mass. and N. H. in which office he remained until Nov. 1715.
He d. at Roxbury, 2 April, 1720, ». 72. His wife, who d. 21 Sept.
1722, was Rebecca, daughter of Edward Tyng, and his children
were, 1. Thomas, b. 26 Feb. 1670, grad. at H. C. 1685 ; 2. Ed-
ward, b. 4 Sept. 1671, d. Jan. 1683 ; 3. Paul, b. 3 Sept. 1675, grad.
at H. C. 1690, was fellow of the Royal Society, chief justice of
Massachusetts, and founder of the Dudleian lecture at Cambridge ;
d. at Roxbury, 21 Jan. 1751, se. 75; 4. Samuel, b. Sept. 1677; 5.
John, b. 28 Feb. 1679 ; 6. Rebecca ; 7. Catharine ; 8. Ann ; 9.
William, b. 20 Oct. 1686, grad. at H. C. 1704, was a colonel, and
member of the council of Mass., and father of Thomas and Joseph
Dudley, H. C. 1750 and 1751; 10. Daniel, b. 4 Feb. 1689; 11.
Catharine, 2d ; 12. Mary. ||PAUL, brother of the preceding, was
b. at Roxbury, 8 Sept. 1650, member of the ar. co. 1677, m. Mary,
daughter of Gov. John Leverett, and died a. 1681, leaving Paul, b.
at Boston, 4 March, 1667 ; Thomas, b. 10 Feb. 1681. *8AMUEL,
eldest brother of the preceding, was b. in England about 1606 ;
came to N. E. and resided in Cambridge, Boston, and Salisbury, and
finally settled at Exeter as the minister of that town, and there d.
in 1683, 8B. 77. He was representative of Salisbury at the March
and May sessions 1644. He m. Mary, daughter of Gov. Winthrop.
She d. at Salisbury, 12 April, 1643. He afterwards m. a second
and third wife. His children were 1. Thomas, bapt. 9 March,
1634, grad. at H. C. 1651, d. 7 Nov. 1655 ; 2. John, bapt. 28 June,
1635 ; 3. Samuel, bapt. 2 Aug. 1639, d. 17 April, 1643 ; 4. Anne,
b. at Salisbury, 16 Oct. 1641, m. Edward Hilton, of Exeter ; 5.
TheophUus, b. 4 Oct. 1644 ; 6. Mary, b. and d. 1646; 7. Biley, b.
27 Sept. 1647 ; 8. Mary, b. 1649, m. Samuel Hardy, a schoolmas-
ter of Beverly, 24 Jan. 1676 ; 9. Stephen ; 10. James ; 11. Timothy ;
12. Abigail ; 13 Dorothy ; 14. Rebecca ; 15. Elizabeth, who m.
Kinsley Hall. The descendants of Rev. Samuel Dudley are very
numerous in New-Hampshire. ^ftTHOMAS, son of captain
Roger Dudley, was born at Northampton, England in 1576, came
to N. E. in 1630, lived in several places, and finally settled at Rox-
bury. He was an assistant in 1635, 1636, 1641 to 1644 ; deputy
governour 13 years commencing in 1630 ; governour 1634, 1640,
1645, and 1650. He d. 31 July, 1653, in his 77th year. Dorothy,
his wife, d. 27 Sept. 1643, and he m. again the next year. His wid-
ow m. Rev. John AUin, of Dedham. His children by both mar-
riages were Samuel, the preceding; Ann, wife of Gov. Simon
Bradstreet. Patience, wife of Major-gen. Daniel Denison ; Mercy,
b. 27 Sept. 1621-, who m. Rev. John Woodbridge; one who m.
Major Benjamin Keaine, of Boston ; Deborah, b. 27 Feb. 1645 ;
Joseph, b. 1647 ; Paul, b. 1650. Some of Governour Dudley's de-
scendants have been ambitious to claim their descent from John
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DUDLEY. DUNCAN.
Dudley, duke of Northumberland, who was beheaded by order of
queen Mary, 22 August, 1653, ae. 51, but the evidence in Dugdale's
Antiquities of Warwickshire, and Camden's Remains, is conclusive
against such descent.
DUEN, IIANDREW, was member of the ar. co. 1644. Whit^
man.
DUMBLETON, JOHN, Springfield, a. 1654. Sprague, Hist.
Discourse.
DUMMER, II JEREMIAH, son of the following, was b. at New-
bury, 14 Sept. 1645, settled in Boston, where he was a member of
the ar. co. 1671, was one of the council of safety 1689, [Hutch, i.
340] and d. 24 May, 1718, ae. 73. He was father to the celebrated
Jeremy Dummer, the agent in England for Mass., who grad. at H.
C. 1699, a most distinguished scholar, who d. at Plaistow, in Eng-
land, 19 May, 1739. t*RICHARD, second son of John Dummer,
of BishoprStoke, England, was b. a 1591, came to N. E. 26 May,
1632, and admitted freeman the same year. He was elected an
assistant in 1635 and 1636, being then of Roxbury, from whence
he soon removed to Newbury, which he represented in 1640, 1645,
and 1647. He d. 14 Dec. 1679, ae. 88. He m. Frances, widow of
Rev. Jonathan Burr, by whom, who d. 19 Nov. 1682, he had Jere-
miah ; Hannah, b. 1647 ; Richard ; William, b. 18 Jan. 1659, who,
Mr. Coffin says, was father of Lieut. Gov. William Dummer, who d.
in 1761. His son Shubael was by a former wife. RICHARD,
Newbury, son of the preceding, was b^rn 13 Jan. 1650, was one of
the council of safety 1689, and d. 4 July, 1689, ae. 44. He m.
Elizabeth Appleton, 2 Nov. 1673, and had Shubael, b. 10 Jan.
1677; Richard, b. and d. 1678; Richard, 2d, b. 1680; Elizabeth,
b. 1682. SHUBAEL^ minister of York, son of Richard Dummer,
was b. 17 Feb. 1636, grad. at H. C. 1656, admitted 1660, com-
menced preaching at York as early as 1662, was ordained 3 Dec.
1672, and killed by the Indians, 5 Feb. 1692, ae. 56. He m. a
daughter of Edward Rishworth. STEPHEN, Newbury, brother of
the first Richard Dummer, was bom at Bishop-Stoke, came to N.
E. about 1636; admitted freeman 1639, returned to England in
1647. His wife was Alice Archer, and his daughter Jane m.
Henry Sewall. Mehetabel, another daughter, was b. 1641. THOM-
AS, brother to the preceding, came to N. E. as early as 1635,
admitted fireeman in 1640, soon afler which he resided in Salisbury.
DUNBAR, ROBERT, Hingham, had a son John b. in 1657.
Twelve of the name have received a classical education in N. E., of
whom Samuel, Asa, and Elijah, H. C. 1723, 1767, and 1794, were
ministers of Stoughton, Salem, and Peterborough.
DUNCAN, ||*NATHANIEL, Dorchester, freeman 1635, was a
merchant, a captain, auditor general, and representative, and is
described by Johnson [Hist. N. E. 109] as " learned in the Latin
and French tongues, and a very good accountant.^' Nathaniel and
Peter, probably his sons, were admitted members of the ar. co. in
1644, and 1654.
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DUNHAM. DWIQH1?.
DUNHAM, JOHN, Plymouth 1638. Davis, Morton's Memo.
384. fSee Downuam.)
DUNKIN, SAMUEL, Newbury 1638. John Dunkin was of
Billerica, in 1675, where two of his children were killed by the In-
dians, 1 August, 1692.
DUNN, THOMAS, Massachusetts, was admitted freeman 1647,
DUNSTER, HENRY, the first president of Harvard College,
came to N. E. in 1640, was admitted fi-eeman in 1641, was induc(*
ed into the office of president 27 August, 1640, resigned 24 Oct.
1654, d. at Scituate 27 Feb. 1659, and was buried at Cambridge.
His wife was Elizabeth, widow of Rev. Jesse Glover. He had sons,
David, b. 16 May, 1645 ; Henry, b. 1650, Jonathan, b. 1653.
DUNTON, ROBERT, Reading 1647. Lewis. Samuel Dunton
was also of Reading about the same time.
DURAND, JOHN, Scituate 1657.
DURANT, JOHN, Billerica 1675. Memoir Billerica, 11.
DURHAM, HUMPHREY, Maine, was killed by the Indians,
1676. Hubbard, 33.
DUSTIN, JOSIAH, Reading 1647, d. 16 Jan. 1672.
DUSTON, THOMAS, Haverhill, m. Hannah Duston, 3 Dec.
1677, by whom he had 13 children b. before 1699, one of whom
Martha, was killed by the Indians, 15 March, 1697, at which time
the mother was captured, and the 5 of April following, with Samuel
Lennardson and Mary Neff, performed the exploit on Duston's is^
land, in Contoocook River, above Concord, N. H. which has render-*
ed her name so celebrated in the Magnalia, in Hutchinson, Dwight'a
Travels, and various other works.
DUTCH, ROBERT, Ipswich 1648. Felt. A remarkable ac
count of his resuscitation when supposed to have been killed by the
Indians, is given by Hubbard, Ind. Wars, 39. SIMON, Glou^^
cester 1649. Ibid.
PUTTON , came to N. E. in 1630. Thomas Dutton, b.
in 1621, was of Woburn in 1662 ; removed to Billerica, and was
living there with his sons Thomas and John in 1675.
DWELLEY, RICHARD, Lancaster 1654. A Richard Dwel-
ley was of Scituate in 1676. Willard,'Hist. Lancaster, and ii.
Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. iv.
DWIGHT, JOHN, Dedham 1635, was admitted fireeraan in
1638, d. in 1653. The Boston records give the death of John
Dwight of Dedham, 24 March, 1638, who was perhaps a son. Jo-
siah Dwight, H. C. 1687, was minister of Woodstock, Conn., and
Dedham. Over the 3d church of the last place he was installed
4 June 1735. W. Winthrop and Worthington. THOMAS,,
Pedham, was admitted fi-eeman in 1638. *TIMOTHY, Dedham,
freeman 1641, was representative of Medfield in 1652, where he
resided many years. *TIMOTHY, Dedham, was a child when his
&ther brought him U> Dedham in 1635. He was admitted a mem^
ber of the church in 1652, elected a representative in 1691 and
1692, and perhaps at a later period. He is described as one *^ of
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an exoelieiit spirit, petfceabie, generous, charitable, and a promoter
of the trse interests of the chnreh and town." He d. 31 Jan. 1718,
®. 83. The late Rev. Timothy Dwight, D. D. president of Yale
Golkfe, wsB 0ne of his descendants. Worthington, Hist. Dedham,
53. Alden, iii Coll. Epitaphs, 53. Between 30 and 40 of the
aame have reeeilTed the honours of Harvard and Yale colleges.
DY£R, GEORGE, Dorchester, was on a Jury, 28 Sept. 1630,
and was admitted freeman, 18 May, 1631. •THOMAS, Wey-
Hwuth 1632, freeman 1644, representative 1646, five years, was a
member and deacon of the church, and d. 16 Nov. 1676, e. 64,
leaving an estate of ^103. 14. 7. He m. Agnes Reed, who d. 4
Dec. 1667. His children were, 1. Mary, b. 1641, m. Samuel White ;
%, John, b. 12 July, 1643, settled in Boston, and left posterity there ;
3. Thomas, b. 1645, d. young ; 4. Abigail, b. 1647, m. Jacob Nash ;
5. Sarah, b. 164^, m. John Ruggles; 6. Thomas, b. 5 May, 1651,
aetded in Plymouth ; 7 and 8. Joseph and Benjamin, twins, b. 6
Nov. 1653. Joseph lived in Weymouth, was deacon of the church,
and d. 12 Oct. 1704. He m. (1 ) Hannah Frary in 1676, who d. 1682 ;
(2) Hannah Baxter, who d. in 1726. He was &ther of Benjamin Dyer,
eaq. of Weymouth, who died 12 Feb. 1774, m. 86, John Dyer, colonel
and judge, of Canterbury, Conn., and Thomas Dyer, of Windham,
Conn., who was father of Judge Eliphalet Dyer, Y. C. 1740. Shat-
toek. WILLIAM, admitted freeman 1636, removed from Mass. to
Rliode-Island in 1638. Mary Dyer, his wife, became a quaker,
and for ** rebellious sedition, and presumptuous obtruding herself
after banishment upon pain of death," was sentenced to be execut-
ed, but upon the petition of William Dyer, her son, was reprieved
on condition that she departed the jurisdiction of Mass. in 48 hours,
and if she returned to suifer the sentence. She returned and was
executed, 1 June, 1660. Hutchinson, i. Hist Mass. 184.
EAMES, *ANTHONY, Hingham, was a representative in 1637
and 1638. There was a John Eames, who d. at Hingham in 1641,
and John, the son of Mark Eames, was b. there in 1649. THOMAS,
Dedhara 1642, had a son John b. in 1642. There was a Thomas
Eames of Sudbury, who had hishouse, bams, com, and cattle burn*
ed by the Indians, 1 Feb. 1676, and his family captured. Hubbard,
Ind. Wars.
EARLE, JOHN, Northampton 1662. Robert Earle d. at Boston
in 1698, and Samuel Earle d. there in 1706, ae. 35. Robert Earle
of Newport was born 1606, and his wife was living in 1699 at the
age of 106 years.
EAST, FRANCIS, Boston, a carpenter, was admitted to the
church 1636, freeman 1637. He had sons, Samuel, b. 1639 ; Da-
vid, b. 1646 ; Daniel, b. 1652.
EASTON, §JOHN, Rhode-Island, son of Gov. Nicholas Easton,
was elected governour of that colony 5 years, from 1690 to 1694;
He d. in 1705, se. 85. JOSEPH, one of the earliest inhabitants of
Cambridge, was admitted freeman in 1635. ^'NICHOLAS, one
of the first settlers of Ipswich, was admitted freeman 1634, wai^
" unduly" elected representative at the court in March, 1635 ; soon
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after, removed to Newbury, and from thence to Newport, where he
was president of the R. I. colony, and was elected governoor in
1672 and 1673. He d. in 1675, s. 83.
EASTMAN, ROGER, was b. 1611, came to N. E. and setUed
at Salisbury in 1640, and d. 16 Dec. 1694, as. 83. He is the great
ancestor of the Eastmans, of whom 15 had grad. at the N. E. Col^
leges in 1828. *JOHN, probably son of the preceding, was rep-
resentative of Salisbury in 1691.
EASTOW, •WILLIAM, Hampton, freeman 1638, was repre-
sentative in 1644, 1648 and 1649.
EASTWICK, EDWARD. (See Estwick.) PHESANT,
Portsmouth 1680.
EATON, FRANCIS, Plymouth 1620, was one of the first pil-
grims ; removed to Duxbury a. 1645. JOHN, Dedham, freeman
1636, had a son Jacob, b. in 1642. JOHN, a proprietor of Salis-
bury in 1640, d. in Haverhill 1669. Thomas Eaton, of Haverhill,
was killed by the Indians, 15 March, 1697. JONAS, Reading,
was admitted freeman 1653, and d. 24 Feb. 1674. NATHAN^
lEL, Boston, freeman 1638, had sons, Eleazar and Nathaniel, bom
in Boston in 1636 and 1639. He was the first head or principal of
Harvard College, which was under his care until the accession of
President Dunster in 1640. He went to Virginia, and finally to
England, where, it is said, he d. in obscurity. SAMUEL, minis-
ter of New-Haven, came to N. E. in 1637, and d. 9. Jan. 1665, »,
68. SAMUEL, Duxbury, 1641. JSAMUEL, New-Haven,, son of
the following, was b. a. 1629 ; came with his father to N. E. and
grad. in 1649, at H. C. of which he was a fellow. He was elected
a magistrate of New-Haven colony in 1654, and d. in that or the
succeeding year. §THEOPHILUS, brother of Rev. Samuel Ea-
ton, was a native of Stony^Stratford, Oxfordshire, and held the office
of deputy-governour, of the East-India Company, and ambassador to
the Court of Denmark, before he came to N. E. in 1637. He was
one of the first settlers of the town and colony of New-Haven, and
was elected gevernour of the latter in 1639, and continued in office
until his death, the 7 Jan. 1657, in his 67th year. WILLIAM,
Watertown, where his son Daniel was b. in 1638. There was a
William Eaton of Reading, freeman in 1653, who d. 13 May, 1673.
EBORNE, SAMUEL, Salem 1637, Lynn 1640. Felt. Lewis.
This name is spelled frequently Abourne. THOMAS, Salem, was
admitted freeman 1634.
ECKELS, RICHARD, Cambridge, was admitted freeman in
1642. John D. Eccles grad. at Y. C. in 1815.
EDDINGTON, EDWARD, Scituate 1641.
EDDY, BENJAMIN, Watertown 1639. JOHN, Watertown,
freeman 1634, had children, Pilgrim ; John, b. 1636 ; Benjamin ;
Samuel, b. 30 Sept. 1640. Savage, i. Winthrop, 101. SAMUEL,
Plymouth 1638. Davis, Morton's Memo. 384.
EDGECOMBE, NICHOLAS, was an inhabitant of Casco-Bay in
1658. He was probably of the family of Sir Richard Edgecombe,
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ED6ERLY. EUOT.
of Moiiiit-Edgecombe^ in Devonsfairey who was a proprietor of lands
near Casco.
EDGERLY, THOMAS, Dover 1665, freeman 1672, was a ma-
gistrate of N. H. He m. Rebecca Hallowell in 1665. He is
probably the great ancestor of the Edgerlys in New-Hampshire.
EDMUNDS, JOHN, Massachusetts, was admitted freeman in
1631. Two of the name of Edmond have grad. in N. E. both at
Y. C. in 1777 and 1796. JOSHUA, and SAMUEL, were of Con-
cord in 1745. The first was admitted freeman in 1650. WALTER,
Concord, freeman 1639, had a son John b. 1640. WILLIAM,
Lynn, freeman 1635, had sons, John, Samuel, and Joseph, and d.
4 August, 1693. Lewis.
EDSALL, IITHOMAS, Boston, was member of the ar. co. 1652.
His son Henry was b. 1654.
EDSON, SAMUEL, Salem, from thence to Bridgewater, where
he was a deacon of the church ; representative to Plymouth court
1676, d. 9 July, 1692, s. 80. Susanna, his widow, d. 20 Feb.
1699, SB. 81. Five of the name of Edson, and probably his de-
scendants, have been educated at Harv., Yale, and Dartmouth.
EDWARDS, NATHANIEL, a merchant of Boston, died 2
Jan. 1654. There was a Nicholas Edwards of Boston, who d. at
Barbadoes, 1 2 Oct. 1 661 . The name of Edwards has furnished some
distinguished men ; the catalogues of the New-England, Union,
and New-Jersey colleges presenting 25 graduates, of whom are the
two presidents of the name. ROBERT, Concord, was admitted
freeman 1642, and d. a. 1650, leaving several children. THOMAS,
Salem 1637, was admitted freeman in 1643. WILLIAM, Lynn
1648, East-Hampton, L. I. 1650.
EELLS, JOHN, whose name is also written Eales and Eels, is
styled a bee-hive maker, and was probably the freeman in 1634.
He finally settled in Newbury, and there d. 23 Nov. 1653. Of
the 12 graduates of this name at Harvard, Yale, and Williams col-
leges, 10 were clergymen.
EGGLESTON, BIGOT, or BAGOT, Dorchester, was admitted
freeman 1631, removed to Windsor, with the first settlers of that
town, and was there in 1636. Descendants are in Conn, and N. H.
Ambrose and George W. Eggleston grad. at Y. C. and H. C. in
1813 and 1815.
EGLINGTON, EDWARD, Boston, d. 17 Nov. 1696.
ELDERKIN, JOHN, Lynn 1637, Dedham 1641, may have pos-
terity in Conn., where the name exists, and has had four grad. at
Yale College.
ELDRID, SAMUEL, Cambridge 1646, had a son Thomas, b.
in 1648. Samuel probably another son, lived in Rochester in 1688,
and is named in the Revolution in N. E. Justified.
ELFORD, JOHN, Salem 1638. (Perhaps the same as Alford,
an early name in Salem.)
ELIOT, ANDREW, Beverly. (See Elliott.) FRANCIS,
Braintree, freeman 1641, was ord. deacon of the church, 12 Oct.
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ELIOT. ELLINGHAM.
16S3. His son John was U 17 April, 166#. Whitoey, Hist. Oaiiicy.
Savage, i. Winth. 203. The various families of Eliot, Elliot, and Elli-
ott had furnished 40 graduates at the N. E. colleges in 1638, of whom
11 were clergymen. JACOB, Boston, brother to. Rev. John Eliot,
was admitted freeman 1632, was an eldev of the church. His son
Jacob, k 1633, freeman 1654, wis a captain, and probably died in
Boston 16 August, 1693, n«.61. John, another son, was b. 1634.
Savage, ii. Winthrop, Index. JOHN, Watertown 1633, whose name
is spelled Ellet, had sons, John b. 1636, and Samuel JOHN, tiie
celebrated apostle among the Indians, arrived m N. £. in 1631,
feeeman 1^2, was ordained the first minister of Roxbory, onr
Monday, 5 Nov., or as Mr. Prince supposes, on Friday, 9 Nov. 1632.
He commenced preaching to the Indians at Nonantum, in Newton,
Mass. 28 Oct. 1646, and continued his benevolent labours until his
powers were subdued by age. He d. 20 May 1690, in his 86th year,
having survived one colleague, Rev. S. Danferth, and received a
second, Mr. Walter, in 1688. Anna, his wife, d. 22 March, 1687.
His children were John ; Joseph (see next articles) ; Samuel, b.
22 June, 1641, grad. 1660, at H. G. of which he was a fellow ; be-
came a preacher, but d. young ; Aaron, b. 19 Feb. 1644, d. 18
Nov. 1655 ; Benjamin, b. 29 Jan. 1647, grad at H. C. 1666, was
a preacher, and d. 15 Oct. 1687 ; in his 4l6t year. JOHN, the
first minuter of N«wton, son of the preceding, was bom at Roxbu*
ry, 31 August, 1636, grad. at H. C. 1656, was admitted freeman
1660, ordained 20 July, 1664, m. Elizabeth, daughter of Daniel
(Sookin, 23 May, 1666, and d. 13 (or 11) Oct. 1668, ». 32; leaving
a son John, bom 28 April, 1667, who grad. at H. C. 1685. JO-
SEPH, minister of Guilford, brother of the preceding, was born 20
Dec. 1638, grad; at H. 0. 1658, was ordained 1664, and d. 24 May,
1694, ffi. 55. His son. Rev. Jared Eliot, of Killingworth, who was
b. 7 Nov. 1685, grad. at Y. C. 1706, d. 22 April, 1763, ». 77, was
father of John Eliot, who grad. at H. C. 1737, a son of whom was
Rev. Richard R. Eliot, H. C. 1774, the minister of Watertown,
who d. in 18ia ||*PHILIP, Roxbury, brother of the Rev. John
Eliot, of Roxbury, was admitted freeman in 1636, member of the
ar. CG. 1638, representative 4 years, from 1654 to 1657. He d. 24
Oct. 1657. IROBERT, Portonouth, was a counsellor of N. H. in
1683.
ELITHORP, THOMAS, Rowley 1543, died in 1709, qiiite ad-
vanced.
ELKINS, HENRY, a tailor of Boston, was admitted freeman in
1635, removed to Hampton, and d. 1669.
ELLERY, •WILLIAM, freeman 1672, was elected representa-
tive of Gloucester in 1689. The name of Ellery had, in 1828, fur-
nished 8 graduates at the N. E colleges, of whom William, H. C.
1747, was one. of the signers of the declaration of independence,
and d. at Newport, 13 Feb. 1820, ae. 94.
ELLINGHAM, WILLIAM, was an inhabitant of Kittery
1652.
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ELUN6 WOOD, RALPH, was bora a. 1610, came to N. £. and
settled at Salem as early as 1638 ; was a member of the church, and
one of the founders of the church in Beverly in 1667.
ELLINS, ANTHONY, PascaUqoa 1631. Adams, Annals
Portsmouth, 18.
ELLIOTT, •ANDREW, Beverly, came from Somersetshhre, was
admitted freeman 1683, town clerk 1667, was representative from
1690 to 1692. In the Coll. of the Mass. Hist. Soc. [2 series, i. 229]
is a genealogy of this family, which is very erroneous, so &r as it
relates to this person and the following. It does not appear from
the Beverly records whether there was a previous ancestor in N. £.
or not, although Winthrop [i. Hist. N. E. 151] names an Eliot of
Ipswich, sub anno 1634, who may be the one said to have come from
Wales, [2 Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. i. 229] but rather improbable.
Beverly Records. ANDREW, the only son of the preceding, was
bprn at East^Coker, in Somersetshire, 1651 ; m. Mercy, daughter
of Samuel Shattuck, 9 Dec, 1680, and was lost at Cape Sables,
firom on board a ship, belonging to Philip English, while returning
to N. E. 12 Sept. 1688, ». 37, leaving children, Mary, b. 1681 ;
Andrew, b, 11 Sept. 1683; Samuel, b. 11 Feb. 1686; all b. in
Beverly. Andrew, the eldest son, m. Ruth Symonds, and had, 1.
Samuel, a bookseller in Boston ; 2. Ruth, who m. Nathaniel Thayer,
of Boston, and was mother of Rev. Ebenezer Thayer, of Hampton,
H.C. 1753; 3. Andrew, D. D., b. 25 Dec. 1718, grad. at H. C.
1737, was ordained over the North church in Boston, 14 April, 1742,
d. 13 Sept. 1778, leaving three sons, who received a publick educap
tion, (1) Rev. Andrew, b. 11 Jan. 1743, grad. at H. C. 1762, was
ordained at Fairfield, Conn. 1774, d. 1805, s. 62; (2) Rev. John,
D. D. b. 21 May, 1754, grad. at H. C. 1772, succeeded his father
at Boston, 3 Nov. 1779, d. 14 Feb. 1813, s. 59 ; (3) Ephraim, b.
29 Dec. 1761, grad. at H. C. 1780, was a druggist in Boston, and
d. Sept. 1827, s. 65. These three brothers were members of the
Mass. Hist. Soc. This name, now spelled Eliot, was written Elliott
bj the ancestor of the family at Beverly.
ELLIS, ARTHUR, came to N. E. in 1630. Nine of the name
of ElUs had grad. at the N. E. colleges in 1828. JOHN, Dedham,
freeman 1641, was probably of Medfield in 1653, where his wife
died. He m. again in 1656, and had sons, Samuel, Joseph, and
Eleazar. Hon. Caleb Ellis, H. C. 1793, of Claremont, N. H.,
was of this family. WILLIAM. (See Allis.)
ELLISON, RICHARD, Braintree 1646, had children, Mary;
Hannah ; John, b. 21 Aug. 1650 ; Sarah; Temperance ; Experience,
b. 1657.
ELLSWORTH, JEREMIAH, Rowley 1650, d. 6 May, 1704.
Six of the name of Ellsworth have received the honours of the N. E.
colleges.
ELSLEY, JOHN, one of the first proprietors of Salisbury, was
admitted freeman in 1639.
ELMES, RODOLPHUS, Scituate between 1633 and 1657. 2
Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. iv. 241.
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ELMER. EMERSON.
ELMER, EDWARD, Cambridge 1632, one of the first settlers
of Northampton a. 1653. Six of the name, writing it Elmer and
Elmore, had grad. at N. J., Midd., and Union colleges in 1828.
ELSE, ROGER, Charlestown, d. 25 Dec. 1668. John Elzey d.
at Boston 31 Dec. 1702.
ELWELL, ROBERT, Salem, freeman 1640, was received as
member of the church in 1643 ; removed to Gloucester as early as
1649. Savage, ii. Winthrop, 178.
ELY, NATHANIEL, Cambridge 1635. Samuel and WUliam
Ely were admitted freemen in 1680. Twenty-one of the name had
grad. at Y. C. in 1828, seven of them clergymen, and 5 had grad.
at the other N. E. colleges.
EMBLEN, JOHN, minister of the first Baptist church in Boston,
from 1684 to his death, 9 Dec. 1702.
EMERSON, JOHN, an inhabitant of Ipswich 1648, and proba-
bly the son of Thomas Emerson. The name of Emerson has fur-
nished 17 ordained ministers out of the 43 persons who had grad.
at the N. E. colleges in 1828. Several others have been preachers,
but not ordained. JOHN, minister of Gloucester, son of Thomas
Emerson, of Ipswich, grad. at H. C. 1656, was ordained 6 October,
1663, and died 2 Dec. 1700, having preached more than 40 years.
He married Ruth, daughter of Deputy-gov. Symonds in 1662. He
had several children, of whom John, grad. at H. C. 1689, was pro-
bably the preacher at Manchester, named in the Magnalia, i. 81,
and was afterwards ordained at New-Castle, and installed the first
minister of the 2d church in Portsmouth, 28 March, 1715, died 21
June, 1732, ae. 62. JOHN, who grad. at H. C. in 1675, is put in
italicks as being a minister. He was nephew to the preceding, and
was probably the eminent schoolmaster at Newbury in 1681, after-
wards at Charlestown, fi-om whence he removed to Salem in 1699,
and there d. in 1712. Wisner, Sermon on Hon. W. Phillips, Ap-
pendix. Bentley. JOSEPH, the first minister of Mendon, Mass.
was ordained in 1667, [Worcester Magazine, ii. 373] and remained
in office eight years. [Whitney, Hist. Co. Worcester, 56.] He
removed to Concord, and d. there, 3 Jan. 1680. [Shattuck.]
He m. Elizabeth, daughter of Rev. Edward Bulkley, 7 Dec. 1665,
and had 3 sons. [Tradition.] His widow m. Capt. John Brown,
of Reading, and one of her sons by Mr. Emerson, Peter, married a
daughter of Capt. Brown, and was ancestor of Rev. Daniel Emerson,
H. C. 1739, of HoUis, two of whose sons, Joseph and Samuel, grad.
at H. College. Rev. Joseph Emerson, of Maiden, was a son of
Edward Emerson, and grandson of Rev. Joseph, of Mendon. He
m. Mary, daughter of Samuel Moody, of York, and had 9 sons and
4 daughters, and d. 13 July, 1767, in his 68th year. Three of the
sons were ministers, Joseph, born 25 August, 1724, grad. at H. C.
1743, settled at Pepperell, and d. 29 Oct. l';73; William, born 21
May, 1743, grad. at H. C. 1761, settled at Concord ; was a chap-
lain in the rev. army, and d. at Rutland, Vt. 20 Oct. 1776 ; John,
b. 20 Nov. 1745, grad. at H. C. 1764, and d. at Conway, Ms. July,
1826, le. 81. William had but one son, the late Rev. William
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Emerson, of the first church in Boston, H. C. 1789, who d. 12 May.
1811. ae. 42, four of whose sons, William, Ralph Waldo, Edward
Bliss, and Charles Chauncy, grad. at H, C. 1818, 1821, 1824, and
1826. The second son was ordained at Boston as colleague with
Rev. Henry Ware, 11 March, 1829. ROBERT, Haverhill, free-
man 1668, the ancestor of the Haverhill Emersons, of whom was
Moses, H. C. 1737 ; Samuel, D. C. 1814, and John S., D. C. 1826
are probably descendants. Thomas Emerson and his wife, and
children Sarah and Timothy, of Haverhill, were killed by the In-
dians, 15 March, 1697. THOMAS, Ipswich 1639, d. 1 May, 1666.
His wife was Elizabeth. His children were, Joseph, who had a son
Joseph ; Nathaniel ; James, who went to England ; Thomas, who
d. before his father, and John, who is named in a codicil to his fa-
ther's will 1660.
EMERY, ANTHONY, Newbury, removed to Dover as early as
1644, thence to Kittery, where he was admitted freeman in 1652.
Ten of this name, three <5f them clergymen, had grad. at the N. E.
colleges in 1828. GEORGE, aphysican of Salem, was b. in 1609,
and d. 20 Feb. 1687. Mary, his wife, d. in 1673. *JAMES, Kit-
tery, freeman in 1652, was representative in 1676. JOHN, New-
bury 1635, brother of Anthony, was b. a. 1598, admitted freeman
in 1641, and was living in 1678. He had children, viz : John ;
Ebenezer, b. 1648 ; Jonathan, b. 13 May, 1652. John had sons, John,
b. 1656; Joseph, b. 1663; Stevens, b. 1666; Samuel, b. 1670;
Josiah, b. 1681, and eight daughters, b. between 1652 and 1679.
EMMONS, THOMAS, Boston, admitted freeman 1652, d. 11
May, 1664.
ENDECOTT, ft^JOHN, came from Dorchester in England,
and arrived at Salem, in Sept. 1628. He was elected assistant in
1630; nine years; colonel 1636; deputy-governour 1641, 5 years;
governour in 1644, 1649, 1651 to 1653, and from 1655 to 1664,
fifteen years; major-general from 1645 to 1648, four years. He d.
at Boston, to which place he removed in 1644, 15 March, 1665, 8b.
76. His wife, who. was Anna Gover, d. soon after his arrival, and
he was m. by Gov. Winthrop and Rev. John Wilson, to Elizabeth
Gibson, 18 Aug. 1630, and she survived her husband. JOHN,
son of the preceding, was admitted freeman in 1665, m. 9 Nov. 1653,
to Elizabeth, daughter of Jeremy Houchin, of Boston. ZERUB-
BABEL, Salem, brother of the preceding was admitted freeman in
1665, and d. in 1684, leaving sons, John, Samuel, Zerubbabel, and
5 daughters. He m. (probably a 2d wife) the widow of Rev. Anti-
pas Newman.
ENDRED, II JOHN, member of the ar. co. 1644. Whitman.
ENGLISH, PHILIP, a merchant of Salem, a. 1670, m. a daugh-
er of Richard HoUingworth, and was a great sufferer in the witch-
craft delusion, 1 Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. x. THOMAS, one of
the first pilgrims at Plymouth 1620, died the next year after his
arrival.
ENOS, WILLIAM, New-Haven 1639. Pascal Paoli Enos grad.
at D. C. 1794.
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ENSIGN, JAMES, Catnbiridge, \rus admitted freemtii m 1635.
fidward F. Ensign grad. at H. C. 1816.
EPES, ♦DANIEL, son of Daniel Epes of Kent, England, came
with his mother, who m. Dep. Gov. Symonds, to N. £. and settled
at Ipswicb, where he was a captain, freeman 1674, and representa-
tive 1684. He d. 8 Jan. 1692, ». 67. He m. Elizabeth, daughter
of Dep. Gov. Symonds, 20 May, 1644, and had 11 children, 1. Sam-
uel, b. 24 Feb. 1647, grad. at H. C. 1669, and d. before 1698; 2.
Daniel, the following ; 3. Nathaniel, b. and d. 1650 ; 4. John, b.
and d. 1651; 5. one, (obliterated) b. 1651 ; 6. Joseph, b. 1653; 7.
Martha, b. 1654; 8. Mary, b. and d. 1656; 9. Lionel, b. 1657;
10. a son, b. and d. 1658 ; 11. Richard, b. 1659. (DANIEL, son
of the preceding, was b. 24 MaT<^, 1649, grad. at H. C. 1669i,
was a magistrate and counsellor, and d. in Nov. 1722, ». 73. He
m. Martha, daughter of William Bordman, of Cambridge, 17 April,
1672, and had 2 sons and 7 daughters. The sons were, 1. Daniel,
b. 28 Oct. 1679, m. Hannah Higginson, of Boston, in May, 1705,
had 7 sons and 2 daughters, of whom Daniel, b. 8 Nov. 1716, was
father of Daniel Epes, esq. b. 10 March, 1739, grad. at H. C. 1758^
und d. at Portland in May 1799 ; 2. Samuel, b. 4 Jan. 1681. Dun^
ton mentions, in his Journal, an Epes, who was the ** most eminentt
schoolmaster in N. England," probably Daniel or Samuel, H. C.1669.
ERRINGTON, ABRAHAM, Cambridge, a member of the
church, m. Rebecca, daughter of Robert Cutler, and had Rebecca,
Hannah, Sarah, Mary, Abraham, b. 8 Nov. 1663, and perhaps oth-
ers. THOMAS, Lyim 1642. Lewis.
ESSET, WILLIAM, Boston, d. 24 May, 1697.
E8TABROOK, JOSEPH, minister of Concord, was born
at Enfield, in Middlesex, England, and came to N. E. a. 1666, with
two brothers, one of whom, Thomas, lived in Swanzey and Con-
cord. He grad. at H. C 1664, was ordained a colleague with Rev.
Edward Bulkley, a. 1667, and d. 16 Sept. 1711. By Mary, his
wife, a daughter of Capt. Hugh Mason, he had children, 1. Joseph,
b. 6 May, 1669, settled at Lexington, where he was a deacon from
1716 to his death, 24 Sept. 1733, leaving issue ; 2. Benjamin, b.
24 Feb. 1671, grad. at H. C. 1690, was ordained at Lexington, 21
Oct. 1696, d. 28 July, 1697, leaving a widow, Abigail, daughter of
Rev. Samuel Willard, whom he m. 29 Nov. 1693 ; 3. Mary, b. 28
Feb. 1672, m. Jonathan Green, of Newton ; 4. Samuel, b. 7 Jan.
1674, grad. atH. C. 1696, was ordained at Canterbury, Conn. 13
Jan. 1711, d. 26 June, 1727, ae. 53; 5, Daniel, b. 14 Feb. 1676,
settled at Cambridge, and d. at Sudbury, 7 Jan. 1736 ; and 6. An-
na, b. 30 Jan. 1677, ra. Joshua Haynes, of Sudbury, 26 Jan. 1710.
Rev. Joseph Estabroak, H. C. 1782, of Athol, is descended from
Joseph, the eldest son of Rev. Joseph Estabrook. Shattuck, MS
Hist. -Concord.
ESTWICK, EDWARD, a mariner of Salem 1649.
ESTY, JEFFREY, an inhabitant of Salem 1637.
EVANS, HENRY, Boston, was admitted freeman 1645. David
Evans, of Boston, d. 27 July, 1663. || JOSIAH, was a member «>f
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the ar. co, 1642, Richs^rd, Dorchester, freeman 1645, had a son
Matthiab, b. in 1643. ROBERT, Portsmouth 1665, had sons,
Robert, Edw«^d, i^nd Jonathan. Tne late judg^e Richard Evans,
of N. H. was probably a descendant, WIliLI AM, Gloucester, was
one of the selectmen in 1647. Felt.
EVARTS, JOHN, Concord, was admitted freeman in 1638, and
had sons, John aud Juds^b, b. ia 1639 and 1649. He may have
removed to Conn., as there was a John Evarts at Guilford in 1650.
Jeremiah Evarts, Y« C. 1802, is probably of this descent.
EVEIJETH, SYLVESTER, was of Gloucester, and one of the
selectmen in 1647. Rev. John Eveleth, H. C. 1689, a preacher at
Manchester, at Arundel, at Enfield, and the minister of Stow, might
EVERDEN, WALTER, came from Kent to N. E. and w^s liv-
ing in Mass. in 1674. Hutch. Coll. 468.
EVERETT, ♦JOHN, whose name is written Evered, and in Al-
len's Hist, of Chelmsford, p. 169, appears, John Webb, alias Ever-
ett, was a representative of Chelmsford in 1664 ; died there, 16
Oct. 1668. (See Webb, John.) RICHARD, formerly written
Everard, was an inhabitant of Dedham in 1636, and was admitted
freeman in 1646. His children named in records of births, were,
Samuel, b. 30 Sept. 1639 ; Mary, b. 1639 ; Sarah, b. 1641 ; James,
b. and d. 1643. Of his descendants, several have been distinguish-
ed for talents. Eighteen of the name had received the honours of
the N. E, colleges in 1828, of whom were, Moses, H. C. 1771, or-
dained minister of Dorchester, 28 Sept. 1774, d. 14 Jan. 1793;
Oliver, H. C. 1779, minister of Summer-street church in Boston ;
ordained 2 Jan. 1782, dismissed, 1792; d. at Dorchester, 19 Nov.
1802, ©. 50. leaving sons, Alexander Hill, H. C. 1806; Edward, H.
C. 1811 ; Thomas ; John, H. C. 1818. WILLIAM, Kittery 1652.
Stevens Everett grad. at H. C. 1815.
EVERILL, JAMES, Boston, was admitted to the church, 20
July 1634, freeman 3 Sept. 1634, was one of the selectmen and d.
1682 or 1683. Savage, i. Winth. 290, ii. 213.
EWELL, HENRY, Scituate 1638. ii. Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. x.
Index. JOHN, Newbury, d. 31 July, 1686.
EWER, HENRY, Sandwich 1637. Lewis. Gamaliel Ewer
grad. at D. C. 1777. THOMAS, Massachusetts, was admitted
freeman 1636. Winthrop [Hist. N. E. i. 234] mentions one Ewre,
who indulged in some freedom of speech, which subjected him to
the notice of Lord Ley.
EYER, JOHN, Salisbury 1642. (See Ayer.)
EYRE, IIJOHN, son of Simon Eyre, was b. at Boston, 19 Feb.
1654 ; was member of the ar. co. 1682 ; one of the council of safe-
ty in 1689, and d. 17 June, 1700. Jolm Eyre, H. C. 1718, was
probably of this &mily. *SIMON, Watertown, was admitted free-
man in 1637, was representative at the Oct. court 1641. This fami-
ly is of ancient descent ; and may possibly centre in Simon Eyre,
mayor of London in 1445, who was son of John Eyre, of Brandon,
in Suffolk. SIMON, Watertown 1640, perhaps the same as the
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preceding, was of Boston in 1652, where he d. 10 Nov. 1658. His
sons, Simon and John were b. in Boston. THOMAS, Watertown
1644. This name perhaps should be Thomas Ewer, who was ad-
mitted freeman in 1636, or Ewer should be Eyre.
EYTON, SAMSON, Cambridge as early as 1650. Hutchinion,
[i. Hist. Mass. 108] supposes that he lefl college before he had his
degree, and went to England, and was made a fellow of one of the
universities there.
FABER, GEORGE, Boston 1639. Winthrop, i. Hist. N. E.326.
Joseph W. Faber, from Charleston,S. C, graduated at H. C. 1824.
FABENS, GEORGE and JOHN, were of N. H. in 1686. The
name exists in Salem, Mass. Fabgan is a name in N. H.
FAIRBANKS, ||GEORGE^ Dedham and Medfield, probably the
member of the ar. co. in 1644. The name is sometimes spelled
JFairbank, of which two, besides five written Fairbanks, had grad.
at the N. E. colleges in 1828. JOHN, Dedham 1642, whose sons,
Joshua and John were b. in 1642 and 1643. Worthington, Hist.
Dedham, 47, 104. JONAS, Lancaster 1659, was killed, with his
son Joshua, aged 15, by the Indians, 10 Feb. 1676. Willard, Hist.
Lancaster. RICHARD, Boston, was admitted freeman in 1634.
Savage, i. Winthrop, 248. One of the same name was member of
the ar. co. in 1654.
FAIRFIELD, DANIEL, Boston 1640 ; Lynn 1641 ; also of
Salem, and perhaps of Weymouth. Winthrop, ii. Hist. N. E. 45.
John Fairfield d. at Boston in 1691. Four of the name, John,
Rev. John, Micaiah, and Josiah, have grad. at Harv., Dart, and
Midd. colleges. JOHN, Salem, was admitted to the church, 25
August, 1639, freeman 1640, and d. a. 1647, leaving a widow
Elizabeth, and sons Benjamin and *Walter, the last a representative
of Wenham in 1689.
FAIRWEATHER, JOHN. (See Fayerweather.)
FALCONER, DAVID, Boston, had a son Thomas, b. in 1656.
FALES, JAMES, Massachusetts, was admitted freeman in 1673.
James, perhaps a son, was admitted freeman in 1683. The names
of both are spelled Vales in the colony records. Seven of the
name had grad. at H. C. in 1828, the earliest in 1711.
FANNING, WILLIAM, Newbury, m. Eliz. Allen, in 1668, and
had sons, Joseph, b. 1669 ; William, b. 1673.
FARLEY, GEORGE, settled first at Roxbury, removed early to
Woburn, and from thence to Billerica, before 1656, and d. there
27 Dec. 1693. He was one of the early Baptists, and a member of
the first Baptist church of Boston. He had a number of children,
of whom James was b. at Woburn in 1643, and d. in 1644 ;
Timothy, who was killed with 7 other persons by the Indians at
Brookfield, 4 August, 1675 ; Caleb, who settled in Billerica, whose
descendants are in Mass. and in Hollis and Concord, N. H. and
who may have d. 16 March, 1712, at Roxbury, where a Benjamin
Farley died 12 March, 1719. Nine of the name had grad. at
the N. E. colleges in 1828, of whom Abel and Stephen, D. C. 1798.
and 1804, and Frederick Augustus, H. C. 1818, have been clergy-
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men ; the last settled at Providence. MICHAEL, came to N. E.
in 1675, and settled at Ipswidi, having been sent by Richard Sal-
tonstall to take charge of his fulling-mill. He had two sons, Michael
and Meshech, who were of Ipswich in 1682.
FARMER, EDWARD, son of John Farmer, of Ansley^ in
Warwickshire, came from thence to N. E. as early as 1672, and set-
tied at Billerica, where he d. 27 May, 1727, aged a. 87. Mary, his
wife, d. 26 March, 1719, aged 78. His mother , a widow, also came
with him, m. Elder Thomas Wiswall, of Newton, and d. at her son's
house. His children were, 1. Sarah, who m. Thomas Pollard, of
Billerica, had 10 sons and 5 daughters, and d. 3 May, 1725 . 2. John,
b. 19 August, 1671, d. at Billerica, 9 Sept. 1736, leaving 6 sons ;
3. Edward, b. 22 March, 1674, m. Mary Richardson, and d. 17
Dec. 1752, sb. 78, leaving one son Andrew ; 4. Mary, b. 3 Nov.
1675, m. a Dean ; 5. Barbary, b. 1677, d. 1681 ; 6. Elizabeth, b.
17 May, 1680, m. William Green, of Maiden, and d. 26 Dec, 1761,
SB. 81 ; 7. Thomas, b. 8 June, 1683, great-grandfather of William
Farmer, who grad. at H. C. in 1819 ; 8. Oliver, b. 2 Feb. 1686, m.
Abigail, a grand-daughter of Hon. William Johnson, of Woburn,
and d. at Billerica, 23 Feb. 1761, ae. 75, leaving 3 sons and 6
daughters. The sons were, 1. Oliver, b. 31 July, 1728, d. at Bil-
lerica, 24 Feb. 1814, leaving sons, Oliver, John, and Jeremiah ; 2.
Edward, b. 24 Feb. 1734, a magistrate and the representative of
Billerica 14 years, who d. 4 August, 1804, ae. 70, having had sons,
Edward, Jona., and Jesse ; 3. John, b. 7 Dec. 1737, d. at Billerica,
9 Jan. 1806, in his 70th year, leaving one son, John, of Boscawen,
N. H., a colonel and one of the present representatives of that town.
Gena. Memoir of the Farmers of Billerica, 1828. THOMAS,
probably a brother, of the preceding, was of Billerica in 1675, and
in 1684, but after this period removed, and probably returned to
England or settled in some other colony. There were others of the
name in N. E. at the close of the seventeenth century, whose de-
scendants are probably in N. H. and Vermont.
FARNUM, IIHENRY, was a member of the ar. co. 1644.
JOHN, Dorchester, was admitted freeman 1640, and probably one
of the founders of the 2d church in Boston in 1650. His son,
Jonathan was b. in 1638. John and Thomas Farnum were inhabi-
tants of Andover in 1660, and their descendants are numerous,
some of whom write the name Famham, Three had grad. at
Harv. and Brown in 1828, besides several whose names are spelled
Farnham. JOHN, possibly the preceding, or a son, was an early
member of the 1st Baptist church in Boston.
FARNWORTH, JOSEPH, Dorchester, was admitted freeman
1638, and may be the same who died there in Jan. 1660. JOSEPH,
was admitted freeman 1649. Calamy, in his Account of Ejected
Ministers, vol. ii. p. 840, notices a Mr. Farnworth, who returned
from N. E. and died in extreme poverty. Nine of the name of
Famsworth had received the honours of the N, E. colleges in 1828.
FARR, BARNABAS, d. at Boston, 13 Dec. 1654. GEORGE,
Lynn 1630, was admitted freeman in 1635 ; d. 1661, leaving sons,
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John ; Lazarus ; Benjamin ; Joseph^ freeman 1682 ; an4 4 dau^b-
ters. Elizabeth, hia wife, d 1687. [Lewis.] Jonathan Fari grad.
at H. C. in 1818.
FARRAR, JACOB, Lancaster 1653 was kUled by the Indiana
22 Avig. 1675. His son Jacob had, by Hannah, hia wife, the IbUow-
ing ckoldren : L Jacob, b. 29 March, 1669 ; 2. Geof ge, b. 16 Aug.
i&70 ; 3. Joseph, b. 16 Aug. 1672; 4. John. George, the 2d son,
m. 7 Sept 1692, Mary How, of Concord, and had sons, 1. Joseph;
2. Daniel ; 3. George, b 16 Feb. 1705 ; 4. Samuel, b. 28 Sept
1708. George had 9 children, of whom were Rev. George Farrar,
b. 23 Nov. 1730, and Rev. Joseph Farrar, b. 30 Jan. 1744, gradur
ates of H. C. in 1751 and 1767. Samuel, the 4th son of George,
m. Lydia Barrett, of Concord, and had 7 children, of whom were
Samuel, the father of Samuel Farrar, H. C. 1797, and Prof. John
Farrar, H. C. 1803 ; Rev. Stephen Farrar H. C. 1755, and Hon.
Timothy Farrar, H. O. 1767, both of New-Ipswich, N. H. and
both distinguished men. L. Shattuck, MS letter. Willard, Hist
Lancaster, 28, 37. JOHN, Lancaster 1653, supposed to be brother
of the preceding, d. at Lancaster, 3 Nov. 1669. Willard, Hist. Lan-
caster, 28. THOMAS, Lynn 1639, d. 23 Feb. 1694. His child-
ren were Thomas and 4 daughters. [Lewis.] Twelve of the
name had grad. at the N. E. colleges in 1826.
FARRINGTON, EDMUND, Lynn 1640, removed to South-
Hampton, L. I. a. 1640. He had a son Matthew. Two of the
name, Thomas, and Rev. Daniel, grad. at Harv. and Brown in 1773
and 1775. JOHN, Lynn, removed to South-Hampton, L. I. about
1640.
FARROW,. JOHN, Hingham 1635. Nathan, son of John Far-
row, was b. in 1654. A George Farrow is named by Hubbard, in hia
Indian Wars, and John W. Farrow grad. at New-Jersey coll. in 1825.
FARWELL, HENRY, Concord, admitted freeman' in 1638, re-
moved to Chelmsford, and there d. 1 Aug. 1670. Sons, Joseph, b.
1640 ; James, and perhaps others. John Farwell, H. C. 1808,
probably a descendant, is a lawyer in Tyngsborough, Mass.
FASSETT, JOHN, Massachusetts, admitted freeman in 1654,
Nathaniel Fassett was of Concord in 1666.
FAULKNER, EDMUND, Andover, one of the founders of the
church in 1645 ; died in Jan. 1687. His wife was Dorothy Robin-
son, whom he m. 4 July, 1647. Sons, Francis, b. May, 1651, d..
1732, 8B. 81 ; John, b. May, 1654, d 1706, ae. 52. From Francis,
is descended William Emerson Faulkner, H. C. 1797, Luther Faulk-
ner, H. C. 1802, and Francis Faulkner, esq. of Billerica.
FAUNCE, JOHN, Plymouth in 1623 may be the same who was
admitted free by the Mass. colony in 1635. Thomas Faunce, an
elder of Plymouth church, d. 27 Feb. 1746, ae. 99. His daughter
Patience Kempton, d. in 1779, se. 105 years and 6 months.
FAWN, JOHN, Ipswich 1639, removed to HaverhiU. His wife
was Elizabeth. One of his two daughters m. Robert Clement
FAXON, THOMAS, Braintree, m. Deborah Thayer in 1653,
and d. 25 May, 1662. Hia wife d. 6 days afterwards. James Fax-
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on d. Bit Braintree, ». about 76. Richard Faxon was there as early
as 1659, a»d Thomas Faxon was a representative in 1669. Azari-
ah Faxon, of this &mily, grad. at H. C. 1752, and John Faxcm grad.
at Brown Univ. in 1787.
FAY, HENRY, Newbury, died without issue, 30 June, 1655.
||JOHN, was a member of the ar. co. in 1678. Ten persons of the
name had grad. at the N. E. colleges in 1826.
FAYERWEATHER, •JOHN, son of the following, was born
in Boston, Sept. 1634, admitted freeman in 1673, representative in
1684, d, 13 April, 1712, ae. 78. Rev. Samuel Fayerweather, H. C.
1743, an episcopal minister of South-Kingston, R. I., the only grad-
uate of the name in New-Bngland, d. 24 Aug. 1781. THOMAS,
Boston, admitted freeman 1634. Prince, ii. Annals, 69. Snow,
Hist. Boston, 61.
FEAKE, HENRY, Lynn, was admitted freeman in 1634, and
removed, according to Mr. Lewis, to Sandwich in 1637. •RO-
BERT, came to N. E. as early as 1630, was admitted freeman in
1631, settled at Watertown, and was one of the first deputies of the
general court in 1<634, and again elected in 1635 and 1636. He
was also a lieutenant in 1635. Worthington [Hist. Dedham, 122]
makes him an inhabitant of Dedham before 1647, under the name
of Robert Feashe, and Trumbull [Hist Conn. i. 118] gives his
name as one of the purchasers of Greenwich in 1640.
FEARING, JOHN, Hingham, came from Cambridge, England,
in 1638. One of the same name was admitted freeman in 1652.
Six had grad. in N. E. in 1S28, of whom the Hon. Paul Fearing,
of Ohio, took his degree at H. C. in 1785.
FELCH, HENRY, Reading 1647, perhaps of Boston in 1657.
John Felch grad. at Y. C. in 1758.
FELLOWS, SAMUEL, admitted freeman 1644, of Salisbury in
1651. Four had grad. in N. E. in 1828. WILLIAM, Ipswich
i648.
FELT, GEORGE, bom a. 1601, lived 21 years on a planUtion
at Great Cove, in Casco-Bay, from whence he was driven by the
Indians. He died at Maiden 1693. George Felt, perhaps his son,
was killed by the Indians at, or near, Mountjoy's Island, in Maine,
in Sept. 1676. Hubbard says that he was much lamented, and that
he had been more active than any other man in those parts
against the Indians. Indian Wars, 45. Rev. Joseph B. Felt,
D. C. 1813, minister of Hamilton, Mass., is descended from this
family.
FELTON, BENJAMIN, Salem, was bom a. 1604, admitted
freeman 1689. NATHANIEL, Salem 1637, died, according to
Mr. Felt, 30 July, 1705, e. about 91.
FEMYS, II WILLI AM, member of the ar. co. 1638, lieutenant in
1638.
FENN, ^BENJAMIN, was elected assistant of New-Haven colo-
ny in 1654. Five of the name of Fenn had grad. at Yale College in
1828. ROBERT, Boston, whose son Robert was b. in 1644.
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FENNER. PIFIELD.
FENNER, ARTHUR, Rhode-Island, m. Dec. 1684, Howlong,
daughter of WILLIAM HARRIS. Hon. James Fenner, gov. of
R. I. grad. at Brown Univ. 1789. JOHN, an inhabitant of New-
Haven in 1639.
FENWICK, fGEORGE, came to N. E. in 1635, and setUed at
Saybrook, where his lady died soon after his arrival, and was buried
on the margin of Connecticut River, where her monument still re-
mains. He was a magistrate or assistant in 1647, a colonel of the
military force, and died in high esteem in England in 1657. Hutch-
inson, in his Coll., p. 107, gives a letter which he wrote from Say-
brook in 1639.
FERMAN, JOHN, admitted freeman 1631. (See Firmin.)
FERMSIDE, JOHN, Boston 1642.
FERNALD, RENALD, Pascataqua 1631, was one of Captain
Mason's company, and the first surgeon who settled in New-Hamp-
shire. Belknap, i. Hist. N. H. 47. Adams, Annals Portsmouth, 19.
FERNIS, BENJAMIN, Salem 1640. JEFFREY, Massachu-
setts, was admitted a freeman 1635.
FERSON, THOMAS, Bloody-Point, N. H. a. 1644. William
Ferson grad. at D. C. 1797.
FESSENDEN, JOHN, came from Kent, in England, settled in
Cambridge, was admitted freeman in 1641, and d. 21 Dec. 1666^
leaving no issue. His wife was Jane, and both were members of
the church. His relative, Nicholas, came from England and inher-
ited his estate ; had a son Nicholas, who grad. at H. C. 1701, and
d. in 1719, ae. 38. The descendants of Nicholas are respectable,
and 15 of them had graduated in 1826, nine at H. C, 4 of whom
have been ministers.
FIELD, ALEXANDER, Salem, was received as member of the
church ,Nov. 1648, freeman 1649, and is styled a cordwainer. Felt.
DARBY, Exeter 1638, was an Irishman, and probably the first Eu-
ropean who ascended the White Mountains in N. H. This was in
1642. He was accompanied by two Indians, and made the journey
in 18 days. See Winthrop, and note by Mr. Savage, ii. 67. He
lived until about the year 1661. JOHN, Providence, was one of
the early settlers of Bridge water. ROBERT, Boston, tailor, admit-
ted freeman 1644. Sons, Robert, b. 1647 ; Thomas ; Thomas, 2d,
b. 16^2; Robert, 2d, b. 1653; John b. 1656. WILLIAM, Provi-
dence 1641. 2 Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. vii. 93. 3 ibid,i. 4. Twen-
ty persons of the name, 5 of them clergymen, are on the catalogues
of the N. E. colleges.
FIENNES, CHARLES. His name appears to the address sign-
ed 7 April, 1630, by John Winthrop and others, but it seems un-
certain whether he came over with the company who arrived the
next summer. His name to that address is spelled Fines, Hutch-
inson, i. Hist. Mass. 428.
FIFIELD, JOHN, of Massachusetts, d. 18 Aug. 1665. WIL-
LIAM, Newbury, removed to Hampton 1639, and d. 18 Dec. 1700,
aged above 80.
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FILCHER. PISH.
PILCHER, , Mount WoUaston 1628, was an officer of the
Settlement under Capt. Wollaston. Prince [i. Annals, 162] writes
the name Pitcher, but Morton, [ N. E. Memo. 138] Increase Mather
[Ind. Wars, 21] and Whitney, [Hist. Quincy, 9] all spell it as above.
FILER, WALTER, Dorchester, a lieutenant, was admitted free*
man 1634, and was of Windsor 1635. GEORGE, was an inhabi-
tant of Northampton as early as 1662. JOHN, was a graduate at
H. C. in 1666.
FILLEBROWNE, GORDON, Cambridge 1666, had several
children. THOMAS, Cambridge, was admitted freeman in 1668.
FILMINGHAM, FRANCIS, Salem 1637, whose family consist-
ed of 4 persons. This name, as it is variously spelled, may be the
same as Fkminghamy of which name several have grad. at N. J.
College.
FINCH, ABRAHAM, Massachusetts, freeman in 1634. DAN-
IEL, came to N. E. as early as 1630, and settled in Massachusetts,
where he was admitted freeman in* 1631. JOHN, Weather sfield,
came to N. E. as early as 1632, was killed by Nepaupuck, a Pequot
captain, 30 Oct. 1637. Sherman Finch grad. at Y. C. in 1828.
SAMUEL, Massachusetts, freeman in 1634.
FINNEY, ROBERT, deacon of the church at Plymouth, died
1667, le. 80. Phebe, his widow, d. in 1710, ». 91. This name
may be the same with Pkinney,
FIRMIN, GILES, came from Sudbury, England, in 1630, and
settled^ at Boston, where he was chosen deacon in 1633. He was
admitted freeman 1634, and d. in Sept. the same year. Savage, i.
Winthrop's N. E. 1 14. GILES, freeman 1634, son of the preceding,
was b. in Suffolk county, in England, was educated at Cambridge,
came to N. E., resided at Ipswich, where, in 1638, be received a
grant of 120 acres of land ; practised physick, and was a useful
man. He returned to England, and was settled in the ministry
when more than 40 years old. In a sermon before the house of
lords and commons, and the assembly of divines at Westminster, he
said, " I have lived in a country seven years, and all that time I
never heard one profane oath, and all that time never did see a
man drunk in that land." This land was N. England in its days
of primitive purity. He died at Ridgewell, England, in April,
1697, at an advanced age. His wife was daughter of Rev. Nathan-
iel Ward. HENRY, Massachusetts, was admitted freeman in 1641.
JOHN, Watertown, was admitted freeman in 1631. The colony
records has this name Perman, Gov. Winthrop records the burn-
ing of his wigwam, i. Hist. N. E. p. 38. JOSI AH, Massachusetts,
admitted freeman in 1641. THOMAS, Ipswich, admitted freeman
1639. This name is Firmam in Ipswich records, and Firman in
Colony records.
FISH, GABRIEL, Exeter 1639, Boston 1643. Son Abel, b.
1644. Winthrop, i. Hist. N. E. 327. Nine of the name of Fish,
six of them clergymen,, had grad. at the N. E. colleges in 1825.
JOHN, Lynn, with Jonathan and Nathaniel, of the same pla«e, re-
moved to Suidwich, according to Mr. Lewis, in 1637.
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FISHER. FISKE.
FISHER, ANTHONY, Dedham, was member of the ar. co. 1644,
admitted fireeman 1645. Eight out of 21 of the name of Fisher
who have grad. in N. E. have been settled ministers. The freemen
of the name, besides those mentioned below, were John, 1678 ; John,
1682 ; Josiah, 1683, Thomas, 1674; Thomas, 1678. ANTHO-
NY, Mass., freeman in 1646. CORNELIUS, Mass., freeman
1649. , III^DANIEL, Dedham, admitted freeman and member of
the ar. co. 1640, captain of the militia, representative from 1658 to
1682, (excepting 1659 and 1670) speaker of the house of represen-
tatives 1680 ; elected assistant 1683, and d. Nov. 1683. Worthing-
ton. Hist. Dedham, 50. || JOSHUA, Dedham, was admitted free-
man, and member of the ar. co. 1640 ; and d. 14 Nov. 1645.
♦JOSHUA, Dedham, freeman 1649, representative 1653, 7 years.
JOHN, one of the petitioners for the grant of Lancaster in 1644.
There was a John Fisher, of Dedham who died 5 Sept. 1637. •OLI-
VER, Wrentham, Ms. representative at the Nov. session 1689.
•SAMUEL, Wrentham, Ms. representative at the June and Dec.
sessions 1689. Hon. Jabez Fisher, b. in 1718, d. 15 Oct. 1806,
was of Wrentham, and probably a descendant. Boston Magazine,
ii. 27—33. THOMAS, Cambridge, admitted freeman 1635. Ste-
phen Fisher, an old man, d. at Billerica in 1682.
FISKE, DAVID, one of the early proprietors of Watertown, was
admitted freeman 1638. This name which is generally spelled
JFisk^ has furnished a good proportion of literary characters, 40
persons, 13 of them clergymen, having graduated at the various
colleges in New-England. •DAVID, Cambridge, admitted freeman
1647, perhaps representative 1690, had children, Lydia, b. 1647,
David, b. 1648 ; Seaborn, Elizabeth, Sarah, Hannah. He had two
wives, Lydia and Seaborn, the first of whom was mother of Lydia
and David. •EDWARD, Cambridge, representative at five courts
in 1689. JAMES, Haverhill, where his children were born, viz.
James, 8 Aug. 1649, John, 10 Dec. 1651, Anne, b. and d. 1654;
Anne, 1656 ; Samuel, 1 Nov. 1658. •JOHN, Wenham 1654, rep-
resentative 1669. Coll. N. H. Hist. Soc. ii. 224. JOHN, the first
minister of Wenham and Chelmsford, and an esteemed physician,
was born in St. James, Suffolk, Eng. about 1601, was educated at
Emmanuel college, came to N. E. and was admitted freeman in
1637, resided a short time at Cambridge, then at Salem ; thence
removed to Wenham, where he was ordained, 8 Oct. 1644 ; remov-
ed to Chelmsford 1655, where he d. 14 Jan. 1677, in his 76th year.
His 1st wife, Ann, whom he m. 1629, d. 14 Feb. 1672. His 2d
wife was Elizabeth, widow of Edmund Hinchman. He lefl 4 child-
ren, Moses, b. 1642; John, of Chelmsford, born at Wenham, 12
Dec. 1654; and two daughters. MOSES, the third minister of
Braintree, (now Cluincy) was son of the preceding, and grad. at
H. C. 1662, admitted freeman 1666, ordained 11 Sept. 1672; d.
10 August, 1708, ae. 66. His 1st wife, (who d. 2 Nov. 1692) was
daughter of Mr. Symmes of Charlestown, whom he m. 7 Nov. 1672,
and by whom he had 7 sons and 7 daughters, the sons were 2 Johns,
2 Samuels, Moses, William, and Edward. His 2d wife was Ann
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FISKE. FLACKMAN.
Quincy, daughter of the second Rev. Thomas Shepard, by whom
he had 2 children, one of whom, Shepard, grad. at H. C. 1721, was
a physician at Killingly, Conn, and at Bridgewater, Ms., died 14
June, 1779, ae. 77. The 2d Samuel grad. at H. C. 1708, was min-
ister of the 1st church, and afterwards of the 3d church in Salem,
and d. 7 April, 1770, sb. 81. Descendants are still respectable in
various branches of this family. NATHAN, Watertown, was ad-
mitted freeman in 1642. His wife was Susan. Sons, Nathan, b.
17 Oct: 1642 ; David, b. 29 Feb. 1652, and probably others. Rev.
Nathan Fiske, D. D. of Brookfield, a native of Weston, an original
part of Watertown, was probably from this family. *PHINEH AS,
Salem, freeman 1642; Wenham 1644, representative 1653, had
sons James, John, and Thomas. *THOMAS, Wenham, son of the
preceding, was born a. 1633; representative 7 years, 1671, 1672,
1680, 1686, and 1689 to 1691 ; captain of the militia. *WILLIAM,
Wenham, admitted member of the church in Salem, 2 July, 1641,
freeman in 1643, elected first town clerk of Wenham, 4 Dec. 1644,
representative 4 years 1647 and from 1649 to 1650. He died in
1654.
FITCH, JEREMIAH, Lynn 1634, Boston 1652, died 3 May
1692. Sixteen persons of the name of Fitch had grad. at the N. E.
colleges in 1826. JAMES, the first minister of Saybrook and
Norwich, was born in Booking, in Essex, England, 24 Dec. 1622,
came to N. E. 1638 ; was ordained at Saybrook 1646, removed with
the greater part of his church to Norwich in 1660, and there died
18 Nov. 1702, in his 80th year. By Abigail, his 1st wife, a daugh-
ter of Rev. Henry Whitfield, he had, James, Abigail, Elizabeth,
Hannah, Samuel, and Dorothy. By his 2d wife, Priscilla, daughter
of Major John Mason, his children, were Daniel, John, Jeremiah,
Jabez, b. April 1672, grad. at H. C. 1694 ; ordained at Ipswich
1703 ; installed at Portsmouth, N. H. a. 1725, d. 22 Nov. 1746 ;
Ann, Nathaniel, Joseph, and Eleazer. All his children, excepting
the last, lived to have fkmilies. i^JAMES, Connecticut, probably
the eldest son of the preceding, was an assistant in 1681. JAMES,
member of the church in Boston 1634. JOSEPH, Northampton
1658. THOMAS, brother of Rev. James Fitch, came to N. E.
1638, settled at Norwalk, and was father to Governour Thomas
Fitch.
FITTS, •BENJAMIN, Reading, representative 1689 and 1691.
ZACHARY, Reading, admitted freeman 1638. The two last
names are also spelled Fitch. ROBERT, Salisbury 1640 ; remov-
ed to Ipswich and died a. 1665, leaving a wife Grace and son Abra-
ham. RICHARD, Newbury, d. 2 Dec. 1672. This name is also
spelled Fitz.
FITZRANDLE, EDWARD, Scituate 1638; removed but of
Plymouth colony 1649. 2 Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. iv. 240.
FLACK, COTTON, Boston, admitted freeman 1640. Snow,
Hist. Boston, 118. JOSEPH, Cambridge 1637.
FLACKMAN, THOMAS, admitted freeman 1640. (See Flat-
man.)
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FLAGG. PUNT.
FLAGG, GERSHAM, Massachusetts, admitted freeman 1674
There had been 10 graduates of thi^ name at the N. £. colleges in
1828. THOMAS, Watertown 1644. Son John, b. 1643. This
and the preceding is spelled Flag,
FLANDERS, STEPHEN, Salisbury 1651.
FLATMAN, THOMAS, Salem 1637; freeman 1640, remofed
to Braintree, where his son Thomas was b. 23 July, 1643.
FLAVELL, THOMAS, Plymouth 1623, and his son are men-
tioned in Davis's Morton, 378.
FLEMMING, JOHN, Waterton 1639, d. 4 June, 1667. Son
John b. 1642.
FLETCHER, ||EDWARD, Boston, a cutler, was admitted a
townsman, 24 Feb. 1640 ; member of the church, freeman, and
member of the ar. co. the same year. ED WARD, one of the
ejected ministers, who had been settled at Dnnsburn, in Gloucester-
shire, came to N. E. after 1660, and according to Calamy [ii. Ac-
count 330] d. in this country. FRANCIS, Concord, freemui
1677, son of Robert Fletcher, m. Elizabeth Wheeler in 1656, and
had a large family. JOHN, Portsmouth, admitted freman 1669,
was one of the founders of the first church in 1671, and one of the
earliest deacons. MOSES, Plymouth, one of the first {Mlgrims who
came over in 1620. Morton gives his name Joses, but Prince, from
Gov. Bradford, says Moses. ROBERT, Concord 1635, a consta-
ble in 1637, d. 3 April, 1677, s. 85. His sons were^ Luke, who d.
1665 ; Francis ; William, and Samuel. Shattuck. WILLIAM,
son of the preceding, was admitted freeman in 1643, lived in Con-
cord, where his son Joshua was b. 30 March, 1648 ; was one of the
first settlers of Chelmsford, and one of the selectmen, and d. 6 Nov.
1677. His son William was born 21 Feb. 1657. Others are
named in Chelmsford records. His descendants still remain on the
faternal farm, near the meeting-house in Chelmsford, which is now
1829] occupied by the sixth generation. Thirteen of the name,
and several of them his descendants, had grad. at the N. E. colleges
in 1825.
FLINT, EDWARD, Salem 1665. [2 Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc.
viii. 106.J Of the 15 graduates of the name of Flint or Flynt, who
had received degrees at the N. E. colleges, in 1826, 7 have been
clergymen. HENR F, one of the first ministers of Braintree,
(now duincy) came from England, and arrived here in 1635, and
became member of the church in Boston ; admitted freeman, 25
May, 1636 ; ordained at Braintree, 17 March, 1640 ; d. 27 April,
1668. His wife, who was Margery Hoar, sister of President Hoar,
d. in March, 1687. His children were, Josiah, b. 1645; David,
b. and d. 1652 ; Seth, b. 2 April, 1653 ; John and Cotton, (twins)
b. 16 June, 1656, d. in infancy, and 5 daughters, Dorothy, Anna,
Margaret, Joanna, and Ruth. JOSIAH, Dorchester, son of the
preceding, was born at Braintree, 24 August, 1645 ; grad. at H. C.
1664, ordained at Dorchester, 27 Dec. 1671 ; d. 16 Sept. 1680, as.
35. His son Henry, grad. in 1693, at H. C. of which he was appoint-
ed a fellow in 1700, tutor in 1705, and d. 13 Feb. 1760, in his 85th
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year. * JOHN, Concord, boo of the following, wbjb a lieutenant and
representative in 1677, 1679. He m. Mary, sister of President
Oakes, in 1667, and d. in 1687. Shattuck. j:*THOMAS, Con-
cwd, brother of Rey. Henry Flint, came from Matlock, in Derby*'
shire, settled in Concord in 1637, admitted freeman in 1638, repre-
sentative from 1637 to 1640, four years ; assistant 1642 until his
death, 8 Oct 1653. He brought with him, says Rev. Dr. Ripley,
[Dedication Sermon, 35.] <£4000 sterling, which he expended
chiefly lor the benefit of the town. Mr. Shattuck informs me that
he left several children, of whom were John, above named, and
Ephraim, b. 14 Jan. 1642, m. Jane Bulkley, 20 March, 1684, and
d. 3 Aug. 1722. THOMAS, Salem, d. 15 April, 1663, leaving &
wife and 5 children, Thomas, Elizabeth, George, John, and Joseph.
Shattuck. WILLIAM, Salem 1652, d. May, 1673, leaving a wife
and son Thomas. His estate amounted to £895, Shattuck.
FLOOD, EDMUND, Plymouth 1623. Davis, Morton's Memo.
379. JOHN, Lynn, perhaps the same who was at Salisbury in
1679. PHILIP, Newbury, a. 1660. RICHARD, Boston 1642.
FOBES, JOHN, Bridgwater 1645, the ancestor of Rev. Perez
Fobes, LL. D., of Raynham, Mass., who grad. at H. C. 1762.
FOGG, IIRALPH, Salem, admitted freeman 1634 ; member of
ar. CO. 1644, returned to England, and d. in London 1674. Felt.
Rev. Jeremiah, Rev. Daniel, Jeremiah, and William Fogg grad. at
H. C. in 1730, 1764, 1768, and 1774. SAMUEL, Hampton, d.
16 AprU 1672.
FOLGER, JOHN, came from Norwich, England, in the same
ship with Hugh Peters. [Coffin.] Perhaps he was of Watertown,
PETER, son of the preceding, was born 1618, and came to N. E.
in 1635 ; m. Mary Morrill. He settled first at Martin's Vineyard in
1636 [Coffin] ; removed to Nantucket 1662. Dr. Franklin, who
was his grand-son, in a letter dated at London in 1772, supposes
the Folgers were a Flemish fiimily, and migrated to England in the
time of Elizabeth.
FOLLET, WILLIAM, New-Hampshire 1661, where the name
still exists.
FOLSOM, ADAM, Hingham, came over in 1639. Lincoln,
Hist. Hingham, 45, JOHN, Hingham 1638. Ibid, and Savage,
ii. Winth. N. E. 234, where the name is spelled JFouhhamey its an*
cient orthography. The Folsoms of New-Hampshire are said to be
descendants of the above, Charles and George Folsom grad. at
H. C. 1813 and 1822.
FOOTE, IICALEB, was a member of ar. co. 1648. Twenty of
the name of Foote had grad. at the N. E. colleges in 1826. PASCO,
Salem, member of the church 1652, d. 1672, leaving children, Pas-
co, Elizabeth, Mary, Samuel, probably of Amesbury, and Abigail.
NATHANIEL, Massachusetts, was admitted a freeman in 1634.
*SAMUEL, captain of the militia, and representative of Amesbu-
ry in 1690.
FOP, DANIEL, Hingham 1635. Lincoln, Hist. Hingham, 42.
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FORD. FOSTER.
FORD, ANDREW, Weymouth, freeman 1654, had sons Samu-
el and Ebenezer. Twelve graduates of this name had been educated
at the N. E. colleges in 1826. ROGER, (Ford or Foord) d. at Cam-
bridge, 24 April, 1644. THOMAS, Dorchester, admitted freeman
1631, removed to Windsor, Conn. WILLIAM, was a proprietor
of Bridgewater 1645.
FORDHAMy ROBERT, the second minister of South-Hamp-
ton, L. I., came to N. E. before 1641 ; went to the west part of
Long-Island (probably to Hempstead) with Rev. Richard Denton.
He settled in South-Hampton in 1648, where he d. in 1674, leav-
ing children whose descendants still reside in that place. Wood,
Sketch Long-Island, 38. JONAH, a minister, and perhaps a
son, or grand-son, of the preceding, grad. at Harv. College in 1658,
preached a short time at Brookhaven, L. I., and was living, it would
appear from the Magnalia, in 1697. He is probably the same whom
Mr. Wood [Hist. Sketch, 39] calls Josiah.
FORMAIS, MARK, Salem, admitted member of the church,
22 Sept. 1639 ; freeman 1640, removed from Salem. This name
may be the same as Fermaes.
FORRETT, JAMES, agent of William, earl of Sterling, and his
heirs, was in Boston in 1640. Savage ii. Winth. N. E. 4, 5.
FOSDITCH, STEPHEN, Massachusetts, was admitted freeman
11638. THOMAS, Watertown, d. 21 June, 1650.
FOSS, JOHN, New-Hampshire 1688, one of the grand jury that
year, had a son John. Descendants are numerous in N. Hampshire.
FOSTER, ANDREW, Andover, died May, 1685, ae. 106. He
had one son, Andrew, who lived in Andover. Abbot, Hist. Andover.
Thirty-nine persons of the name of Foster in N. E. had grad. at the
different colleges in 1825. ABRAHAM, Ipswich 1648. Rev. J. B.
Felt. CHRISTOPHER, Lynn, admitted freeman 1637. One of this
name lived on Long-Island in 1670. EDWARD, Scituate, d. in
1643 leaving an only son, Timothy, who settled in the Mass. colo-
ny. 2 Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. iv. 243. I^HOPESTILL, Dorches-
ter, admitted freeman 1636, member of ar. co. 1642, representative
1652, 20 years, captain of the militia. Sons, John and Comfort.
John, who grad. at H. C. 1667, and d. 9 Sept. 1681, ae. 33, designed
the arms of the colony of Massachusetts — an Indian with a bow and
arrow, &c. Shaw, Hist. Boston. ISAAC, minister of Hartford,
was born at Charlestown, [W. Winthrop] grad. at H. C. 1671, ad-
mitted freeman 1679, ordained after 1677, died 22 August, 1682.
JOHN, Massachusetts, freeman 1682, was one of the council of
safety in 1689, a colonel, and one of the first counsellors under the
charter of William and Mary 1692, died in Jan. 1710. REGI-
NALD, Ipswich, received a grant of land in 1641. *SAMUEL,
Chelmsford, was born a. 1619, was a deacon of the church, repre-
sentative at the second session 1679, d. 10 July, 1702, ae. 82. His
son Edward, was born 29 April, 1657. Allen, Hist. Chelmsford.
THOMAS, Weymouth, whose sons, Thomas, Increase, and John,
were b. between 1639 and 1643. THOMAS, Boston, member of
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the church 1640, fireemui 1642. THOMAS, Braintree, admitted
freeman 1647, may be the same who removed to Billerica, was one
of the early Baptists, and died 20 April, 1682. Son Hopestill
bom at Braintree, 28 March, 1650. WILLIAM, Ipswich, received
a grant of land in 1635. Rev. Mr. Felt.
FOWKES, HENRY, Massachusetts, admitted freeman 1645.
FOWLE, GEORGE, Concord, freeman 1638, perhaps died at
Charlestown, 21 Sept. 1682. Sons, Peter and James, b. in 1641
and 1642. Six graduates of the name of Fowle are on the H. C.
catalogue. •JOHN, Charlestown, representative 1689. ||THO-
MAS, merchant of Boston, member of the ar. co. 1639, removed to
Braintree as early as 1643, where one of his children was born.
His son John was born in Boston 1641. Snow, Hist. Boston, 118.
Savage, ii. Winth. N. E. 291.
FOWLER, JOHN, Gilford 1650. Nineteen of the name of
Fowler had grad. at the N. E. colleges in 1826. PHILIP, one of
the first settlers of Ipswich, was admitted freeman in 1635. •THO-
MAS, Amesbury, was representative in 1692. JWILLIAM, New-
Haven colony, was elected a magistrate in 1637, and was one of
the first settlers of Milford 1639.
FOWNELL, JOHN, Charlestown, was admitted freeman in
1645, d. 19 March, 1673.
FOX, GEORGE, the founder of the sect of Quakers, visited
New-England in 1672, having arrived in America from England the
year before. He returned to England in 1673, and d. 13 of the 11
mo. 1690, s. 64. JABEZ, the second minister of Woburn, was
son of Thomas Fox, and grad. at H. C. in 1665. He was ordained
colleague with Rev. Thomas Carter, 5 Sept. 1679, and died of the
small pox, 28 Feb. 1703, s. 56. His widow, Judith, m. Col. Jona.
Tyng, and d. 5 June, 1736, in her 99th year. [Alden.J His son,
Rev. John Fox, H. C. 1698, was his successor, was ordained 4 Oct.
1703, and died 12 Dec. 1756, ae. 76, whose son Jabez, H. C. 1727,
was a counsellor of Massachusetts, and d. at Portland, Me., 7 April,
1755, in his 50th year. THOMAS, Cambridge, was admitted free-
man in 1638, one of the selectmen in 1670, and living in 1674. His
wife was widow Ellen Greene. It is said that he was a descendant
from the historian of the martyrs. The martyrologist was born in
Boston, Lincolnshire, 1517, and lefl two sons, Thomas, who was fel-
low of King's College, Cambridge, and Samuel, fellow of Magdalen
College, Oxford, who wrote his father's life. THOMAS, Concord,
freeman 1644, m. a second wife, Hannah Brooks, in 1647. He lefl
children, Eliphalet, who m. Mary Wheeler in 1665, and d. 15 Aug.
1711; Hannah, b. 1648; Thomas, b. 1649 ; Isaac, b. 1657, and
some others. Shattuck.
FOXCROFT, IIFRANCIS, Boston, member of the ar. co. in
1679, a colonel, and d. at Cambridge, 31 Dec. 1727. Francis and
Thomas Foxcrofl, H. C. 1712 and 1714, were his sons. The for-
mer, a judge of probate, d. 28 March, 1768, m, 75, having had a
son Daniel, who grad. at H. C. 1746, and d. 30 Jan. 1756, m. 29.
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FOXSRY. FREEMAN.
The latter was ordained over tbe iurat ohiureh in Boston^ 20 Nov.
1717, and d. 16 June, 17d9, e. 73.
FOXERY, WILLIAM, Boston 1662. Savage, MS note.
FOXWELL, RICHARD, a merchant, was of Scituate 1634,
went to Saco, where he d. in 1677. Coffin. Folaom. A Foxwell,
whose christian name is supposed hy Mr. Savage to be Richard,
Was admitted freeman 18 Maj^ 1631, when he might have been of
£alem.
FRAILE, OEOROE, Lynn 1637, d. 9 Dec. 1663, leaving a sob
George, who was accidentally kilted in 1669. Lewis.
FRANCIS, JOHN, Braintree, a. 1650, whose wife Rom died in
1659. RICHARD, Cambridge, freeman 1640, d. 24 March, 1687,
«. 80, leaving sons, Stephen, b. 1644 ; John, b. 4 Jan. 1650.
FRANKLIN, JOSIAH, Boston, was son of Th<Hnas Franklin,
of Eaton, in Northamptonshire, who was born in 1596. [Life of
Franklin.} He came to N. £. about 1682, and d. at the age of 87.
His brother Benjamin, a silk dyer, also came to N. £. and left pos-
terity in Boston. The first wife of Josiah was Anna, by whom he
had, 1. Josiah, b. 23 Ang. 1685 ; 2. Anna, b. 1687 ; 3. Jos^h, h.
5 Jan. 1688 ; 4. Joseph, 2d, b. 30 June, 1689 ; the 2d wife was
Abiah, daughter of Peter Folger, and his children were, 5. John,
b. 7 Dec. 1690; 6. Peter, b. 22 Nov. 1692; 7. Mary, b. 1694; 8.
James, b. 4 Feb. 1697 ; 9. Sarah, b. 1699 ; 10. Ebenezer, b. 1701,
d. 1703; 11. Thomas, b. 7 Dec. 1703; 12. Benjamin, the phiioso^
pher, b. 6 Jan. 1706, d. at Philadelphia, 17 AfMril, 1790, ». 84 ; 13.
Lydia, b. 1708; 14. Jane, b. 1712. WILLIAM, Ipswich 1634,
thence to Newbury and Boston, was admitted freeman 1638. The
particulars of his death in 1614 are given by Winthrop, ii. 183*-^
185. His son William was admitted a townsman in Boston, 28
March, 1642. [Savage.] His children b. m Boston were, Elizsr
beth 1638 ; John, 14 July, 1642 ; Benjamin, 12 Oct. 164a, who
had several children ; Ebenezer, who d. id 1644 ; and Eleazar,
b. 4 Oct. 1645.
FRARY, JOHN, Dedham, freeman 1638, one of the founders of
the church, 8 Nov. 1638, afterwards removed to Deerfield. [Worth-
ington. Hist. Dedham, 104.] His sons were Isaac, b. 1638 ; Sam-
uel, b. 1641. Samson andElizur Frary were of Hadley in 1667.
JOHN, Massachusetts, admitted freeman in 1636. ||*THEOPHI-
LUS, Boston 1657, member of the ar. co. 1666 ; captain of the
same 1682; representative 1689, d. 17 Oct. 1700. Son Theophilus
was b. 1657.
FREAKE, JOHN, Boston 1665. 2 Coll. Mass. Hist Soc viii.
105.
FREEBORNE, WILLIAM, Boston, freeman 1634, removed to
Rhode-Island. 2 Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. ix. 179.
FREELAND, WILLIAM, Massachusetts, freeman in 1650.
FREEMAN, JEDMUND, Lynn, 1632 ; [Winthrop, ii. Hist. N.
E. 342 ; and Lewis] one of the first settlers of Duxbury, [A. Brad*
fard, Notes] and an early settler in Sandwidi, was elected an assist
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FREEMAN. FRENCH.
ant of Plymouth colony seren years from 1640 to 1646. He died
about 1668, leaving two sons, John and Edmund, who both m.
daughters of Gov. Prince. Among his descendants, are General
Nathaniel Freeman, of Sandwich, and his son Nathaniel, whograd.
at H. G. 1787, and brother Hon. Jonathan, of Hanover, N. H. a
M. G. 4 years from 1797 to 1801 : Hon. Solomon, a Senator of
Mass. ; Edmund, who grad. at H. G. 1733, died 9 March, 1800, ee.
89 ; Edmund, who grad. at H. G. 1767 ; and Jonathan, who grad.
at H. G. 1778, and was lost at sea on his passage from Europe in
1795, s. 34. i^JOHN, Eastham, son of the preceding, was elected
an assistant of Plymouth colony in 1666. His wife was Mercy
Prince. Mr. Shattuck informs me that there was a John Freeman
of Sudbury in 1644, and the Boston records under 1645, give the
birth of his son Joseph Freeman, who was probably the representa-
tive of Sudbury in 1691. SAMUEL, admitted freeman 1639, sup-
posed to be brother of Edmund, came from Devonshire, England,
1630, and settled at Watertown, where his house was burnt 11 Feb.
1631. [Winthrop, i. Hist. N. E. 41.] He is said to have returned
to England, leaving two sons, Henry, who died in 1672, and Sam-
uel, b. in 1638 ; from one of whom is descended Rev. James Free-
man, D. D. of Boston, who grad. at H. G. 1777. SAMUEL, son of
the preceding, was born 11 May, 1638, and lived in Watertown.
His son Samuel settled in Eastham, was a deacon of the church, m.
a daughter of Gonstant Southworth, and had 3 sons and 4 daughters.
One of the sons was Samuel, who had 9 sons and 3 daughters.
Enoch, the 8th son of the last Samuel, was born at Eastham, 17
May, 1706, grad. at H. G. 1729 ; settled in Falmouth, (now Port-
land) was judge of the court of common pleas, and of probate,
register of deeds, and d. 2 Sept. 1788, s. 82. Hon. Samuel Free-
man, the eldest son of Enoch, was born at Falmouth, 15 June, 1743,
was judge of probate many years, and is well known for various
usefril compilations. His sons, Samuel Deane, William, and George,
grad. at college, the two former at Harvard in 1800 and 1804 ; the
latter at Bowdoin in 1812, and d. 27 May, 1815, in his 20th year.
FRENGH, EDWARD, Ipswich 1636, probably removed to
Salisbury, and a proprietor there in 1640. Ten of the name of
French had grad. at Harvard and the other N. E. colleges in 1826.
JAGOB, Weymouth, admitted freeman 1652. JOHN, Gambridge,
freeman 1644, whose children were, Sarah, b. Oct. 1637 ; Joseph,
b. 4 April, 1640, m. Experience Foster and settled in Billerica,
from whence he removed ; Nathaniel, b. 7 June, 1643. Joanna, his
wife, d. 20 Jan. 1646 ; his housekeeper d. in Feb. 1646, and ho d.
soon after. JOHN, Dorchester 1639, whose sons John and Thom-
as were b. 28 Feb. 1641 and 10 July 1643, may have removed to
Braintree, where Dependence, Temperance, William, Thomas, and
Samuel, children of John and Grace French, were b. in 1648, 1651,
1654, 1657, and 1659. One of these was ancestor of the late
Rev. Jonathan French, of Andover who was b. at Braintree, 30 Jan.
1740; grad. at H. G. 1771 ; d. 28 July 1809. JOHN, Ipswich
1648. ^STEPHEN, Weymouth, freeman 1634, representative in
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FRENCH. FRYE.
1638, was perhaps father of Jacob, freeman 1652. THOMAS,
. Boston, admitted freeman 1632, member of the church, from whence
he was dismissed 27 Jan. 1639 to Ipswich, where he appears to have
resided as early as 1634. He may have been the ensign of the ar.
CO. in 1650. THOMAS, Guilford 1650. WILLIAM, brother of
John French, of Cambridge, came to N. E. as early as 1635, was
admitted freeman 1636, and settled at Cambridge, from whence he
went to Billerica with the first settlers ; was a lieutenant, appointed
to solemnize marriages, and was the first representative in 1660, and
again in 1663. He died 20 Nov. 1681, aged 78. His children
were, Elizabeth and Mary b. in England, John b. in Cambridge and
settled with his father in Billerica, had a large family and d. Oct.
1712, aged a. 78 ; Sarah, b. March, 1638; Jacob, b. 16 Jan. 1640,
settled in Billerica, had a large frimily, and d. 20 May, 1713, s. 73 ;
Hannah, b. 21 Feb. 1641 ; Samuel, b. 3 Dec. 1645, the five last b.
in Cambridge. He had other children by a second wife. His pofh
terity have been numerous in Billerica, and still remain so.
FRIEND, JOHN, a carpenter of Salem, whose family in 1637,
consisted of 11 persons, admitted a townsman in Boston, 30 March,
1640, and was member of the ar. co. same year. He d. 1655 or 6. A
John Friend is mentioned by Winthrop, i. Hist. N. E. 391. Daniel
Friend grad. at H. C, 1779.
FRISK, JOHN, one of the proprietors of Bridgewater 1645.
Johnson mentions a Mr. David Frisk, a minister, who arrived in
N. £. in 1637, but there may be some errour in the name. See his
Hist. N. E. 128.
FRIZELL, JOHN, Braintree, came from Scotland, d. 19 Jan.
1664. John Frizell, a merchant of Boston, grad. at H. C. 1724.
William Frizell was of Concord in 1669.
FROST, •CHARLES, Kittery, representative 1658, 1660, 1661,
captain of the militia, and probably the same named by Hubbard
in his Wars with the Eastern Indians, p. 28, and possibly the major
Frost, killed by the Indians at Kittery, 4 July, 1697. Seventeen of
the name had grad. in N. E. in 1828. EDMUND, a ruling elder
of the church, at Cambridge, came to N. E. in 1635, with Rev.
Thomas Shepard, was admitted freeman 1636. Hb sons were,
John, b. in England; Samuel; Joseph ; James, whojsettled in Bil-
lerica, was a deacon, and d. 12 Aug. 1711, aged a. 74; Ephraim,
and Thonms. His wife was Thomasine. NICHOLAS, Kittery
1652. John Frost was of Dover in 1665, and the name has con-
tinued there and in its vicinity with reputation to the present time.
FROTHINGHAM, WILLIAM, Charlestown 1630, was admit-
ted freeman 1632, had sons, John, b. 1633 ; Peter, b. 1636, admit-
ted freeman 1668 ; Nathaniel, b. 1640 ; Stephen, b. 1641 ; Joseph,
b. and d. 1645 ; Hon. John Frothingham d. at Portland, Feb. 1826,
ffi. 76.
FRYE, GEORGE, Massachusetts, was admitted freeman 1651.
JOHN, Newbury, removed to Andover 1645 ; freeman 1669, died
1698, 88. 92 years 7 months. His sons, John, Samuel, James, and
Benjamin, settled in Andover. Six of the name of Frye, and sev-
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end, if not all, his descendants, had grad. at the N. E. colleges in
1826. ^Jonathan, H. C. 1723, was Captain Lovewell's chaplain, and
perished at Pequawkett in May, 1725. WILLIAM, Weymouth, d.
26 Oct. 1642.
FRYER, ^NATHANIEL, of Boston in 1657, and afterwards a
merchant of Portamonth, representative in 1666, and a counsellor of
New^Hampshire in 1683, and captain of the militia, and magistrate.
His eldest son, James, is the one of whom Hubbard [Ind. Wars]
gives some account. THOMAS, (Fryer or Frior) Salem 1639.
FUGILL, THOMAS, perhaps the one mentioned in a MS of
Rev. Thomas Shepard, as of Buttercrambe, about 7 miles from
York, England, was of New*Haven in 1639, and in 1641 was secre-
tary of the colony.
FULLER, EDWARD, Plymouth, one of the first pilgrims, died
1621. Twenty-three of the name of Fuller had been educated at
the various colleges in N. England in 1826. EDWARD, arrived in
Boston 1630, when there were only '^ seven huts erected.'' His son
John settled in Lynn. Lewis. GILES, Hampton, a. 1646, d. 2 April
1676. JOHN, one of the first proprietors of Salisbury 1640, and
perhaps of Ipswich in 1648. *JOHN, Lynn 1644 ; representative
1655 and 1664, d. 29 June, 1666, leaving sons, John, the following,
William, and James. *JOHN, Lynn 1645, representative 1674--
1678, 5 years, a lieutenant, d. 29 April, 1695. His sons were, John,
Thomas, Edward, Elisha, Joseph, and Benjamin. Lewis. MAT-
THEW, Plymouth, a. 1640 ; removed to Barnstable 1652, was sur-
geon-general of Plymouth colony forces 1673, and styled captain
1675, in which year he d. Thatcher, i. Med. Biog. 18. ROB-
ERT, Dorchester, member of the church 1640 ; freeman 1641 ; had a
son Jonathan, b. 1643. SAMUEL, Plymouth 1620, one of the first
pilgrims, and the first physician who settled in New-England. He
d. in 1633. His son Samuel was of Plymouth in 1623. *THOM-
AS, Dedham 1643, fi^eeman 1653, representative 1673, 1679, 1686,
an ensign of the militia. THOMAS, Woburn, whose son Thomas
was b. 1644. WILLIAM, Ipswich 1637, fireeman 1641, removed
as early as 1646 to Hampton, which he represented in 1667. There
was a William Fuller of Concord, a miller, in 1639. JOHN,
Cambridge, (Newton) died 1698. He had sons, Joseph, b.^ 1652;
Joshua., 1654 ; Jeremiah, 1658, and John. Hon. Abraham Fuller
of the 4th generation, b. 23 March, 1720, represented Newton
20 years, commencing in 1764.
FURBER, *WILLIAM, b. 1614, came from London in the ship
Angel Gabriel, [Coffin] and settled in Dover, which he represented
in 1648, and was living, together with his son William, at Dover in
1684. His name appears as one of the witnesses of the genuine
Indian deed to Wheelwright in 1638.
FURNELL, IISTRONG, Boston, freeman 1643; member of ar.
CO. 1661. Sons, John, b. 1653 ; William, b. 1655. Whitman, in
his Hist, of Anc. and Hon. Art. Co. gives his name of baptism,
8irangt. 2 Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. iv. 199. WILLIAM, Boston
1666. Son Joseph, b. 1656.
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GAGE. GARDINER.
GAGE, JOHN, admitted freeman 1634, was one of the first set-
tlers of Ipswich. Benjamin, perhaps a son, freeman 1671, lived in
Haverhill. Six of the name have received the honours of the N.
E. colleges.
GAGER, WILLIAM, a chirurgeon, and deacon of the first
church at Charlestown, came over with Gov. Winthrop in 1630, and
died 20 Sept. 1630. Winthrop, i. Hist. N. E. 33. One of the
name, William Gager, grad. at Y. C. in 1721.
GAINS, DANIEL, Lancaster 1660, was killed by the Indians,
10 Feb. 1676. Willard, Hist. Lancaster. HENRY, Lynn, was ad-
mitted freemiein 1638. THOMAS, Lynn 1640.
GALE, AMBROSE, Marblehead 1674, was one of the founders
of the church there. HU, Kittery, freeman 1652. RICHARD,
Watertown 1640.
GALLOP, JOHN, Boston, was admitted to the church, 5 Jan.
1634, and freeman the same year ; died in Jan. 1650, leaving a
wife, and sons, John, Samuel, and Nathaniel. Samuel lived in 1^
ton, and had a son Samuel, b. in 1656. Savage, ii. Winthrop, In-
dex. Snow, Hist. Boston, 125. JOHN, son of the preening,
was of Boston in 1644. Capt. Gallop, of New-London, was one of
the six captains slain by the Indians in taking Narraganset Fort, 19
Dec. 1675. HUMPHREY, Dorchester, had a son Joseph, b. in
1643.
GALLY, JOHN, Salem 1637, whose son John, freeman in 1670,
lived in Beverly. Florence, his widow, d. at Beverly 1686, ae. 80.
GAMLIN, ROBERT, Concord, admitted freeman 1634, d. 7
Oct. 1642. The name of Gambling, probably the same, has existed
in Mass. and N. H., and two named Benjamin grad. at H. C. in
1702 and 1734, the first of whom was a counsellor of N. Hampshire,
and d. 1 Sept. 1737, sb. 56. ROBERT, Roxbury, probably son of
the preceding, who is styled sen. in colony records, was admitted
freeman 3 Sept. 1634. Joseph and Benjamin, sons of Robert Gam-
lin, were b. in Roxbury, a. 1639.
GANNETT, MATTHEW, Scituate 1650. THOMAS, Bridge-
water 1645, brother to the preceding, d. in 1655. Caleb Gannett,
esq., of Cambridge, H. C. 1763, born at Bridgewater, 22 August,
1745, was from this fiimily.
GARDE, ROGER, was mayor of York 1644. Winthrop ii. 210.
GARDINER, Sir CHRISTOPHER, a knight, came to N. E.,
Morton says, in 1632, but Mr. Savage more correctly assigns the
date of his arrival to 1630 ; remained at Plymouth and Boston, and
their vicinity, two or thiAee years, and returned to England, where
he joined the disaffected in preferring complaints against the govern-
ment of the colonies. Morton.' Winthrop. LYON, one of the first
settlers of Connecticut, came from Scotland in 1635, and erected
the fort at Saybrook under Lord Say and Seal and Lord Brooke.
He went to East-Hampton, L. I. 1655 and d. in 1663. His son
David, born at Saybrook, 29 April, 1636, was the first born of Euro-
pean parentage in Connecticut, and his daughter Elizabeth, born
on Long-Island, 14 Sept. 1641, may have been the first English child
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GARDINER. GARRETT.
born in New- York. Wood, Hist. Long-Island, 66. Mr. Savage
[i. Winthrop, 174] gives to the father the name of the son, whose
manuscripts might be those to which Trumbull referred. RICH-*
ARD, Plymouth, one of the first pilgrims who came over in 1620.
GARDNER, •ANDREW, a captain, belonged to Muddy-River,
[now Brookline] which he represented in 1689. He was lost in the
expedition to Canada 1690. His son Andrew, who grad. at H. C.
1696, was a preacher at Lancaster, where he was accidentally killed
by a soldier, 26 Oct. 1704. Rev. Andrew Gardner, H. C. 1712, was
minister of Lunenburg, Mass. Forty-one persons of the name had
grad. at the N. E. colleges in 1825, besides eleven whose names are
spelled Gardiner, EDMUND, Ipswich, was admitted freeman 1640.
GEORGE, Salem 1637, was admitted to the church 3 Jan. 1641 ;
freeman 1642. JOSEPH, Salem, a captain, was killed, with five
other oflicers of the same grade, in.battle with the Indians, 19 Dec.
1675. His wife was Anne Downing, who, after his death, m. Gov.
Bradstreet. He left no children. Felt, Annals, 251, 252. RICH-
ARD, Woburn, was admitted fireeman 1652. *SAMUEL, Salem,
born a. 1627, freeman 1675, representative 1681 aad 1682. SAM-
UEL, Roxbury, a lieutenant, and killed by the Indians with Capt.
Wadsworth, 27 April, 1676. Eight of the number killed at this
time belonged to Roxbury. Samuel, son of Peter Gardner of Rox-
bury, was killed six days before. Samuel Gardner was of Hadley
in 1663. *THOMAS, came firom Scotland, and was an overseer
of the plantation at Gloucester 1624, and removed thence to Salem,
was admitted fireeman 1636, representative 1637. THOMAS, a
merchant of Salem, son of the preceding, united with the church
1639, fi-eeman 1641, was a selectman, and d. 1674. His last wife
was Damasis Shattuck. His children were, Sarah Balch ; Sceth
Grafton ; Thomas ; George ; John, freeman 1675 ; Samuel, fi^ee-
man 1675 ; Joseph ; Richard, and Miriam. Felt, Annals, 246.
THOMAS, Roxbury, d. Nov. 1638. THOMAS, Roxbury 1638,
perhaps the freeman under 1646, d. 15 July, 1689. His son An-
drew, probably the one at Muddy-River, was b. 1641.
GARFIELD, •BENJAMIN, Watertown, was representative in
1689. EDWARD, Watertown, freeman 1635, had a son Joseph,
b. in 1637. SAMUEL, was also of Watertown, and an early pro-
prietor.
GARFOARD, JARVIS, Salem 1637, admitted to the church
24 March, 1639 ; freeman same year ; was also resident in Lynn.
GARLAND, PETER, Boston 1654. One of the name grad.
at D. C. in 1828.
GARNER, EDMUND, Cambridge 1635.
GARNETT, JOHN, Hingham 1653. This name has existed
in N. J., and one grad. at its college in 1803.
GARRETT, JAMES, Charlestown, freeman 1639, had a son
James, b. in 1646. RICHARD, Boston, a shoemaker, and mem-
ber of the church, came over in 1630, in which year he requested
to be admitted freeman. A particular account of the circumstances
which occasioned his death, 31 Dec. 1630, is given by Winthrop,
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OARRirrT. OBEREE.
i. Hist. N. E. 39, 40. Richard Garrett, who d. at Boston, 29 March,
1662, and Robert Garrett living there in 1643, might be hia sons.
GASCOYNE, EDWARD, Salem, a member of the church, had
children, Samuel, Preserved, and Daniel, who were baptized in
1639 and 1640.
GASKELL, EDWARD, was a ship-carpenter of Salem 1637.
GATCHELL, JOHN, Marblehead 1648, was b. a. 1611 SAM*
UEL, Salisbury 1651.
GATES, STEPHEN, Massachusetts, was admitted freeman
1653, d. 3 April 1654.
GATUNE, THOMAS, a miller of Braintvee 1650, d. 17 May,
1663.
GAUNT, PETER, Lynn, went to Sandwich 1637. Lewis.
GAY, JOHN, Dedham, was admitted freeman 1635, and the
great ancestor of the Gays of JVJLassachusetts and Gonnectiout, 14
of whom had grad. at the N. E. colleges in 1826, 6 of them having
been clergymen. JOHN, Dedham, freeman 1644. Samuel, Hez^
kiah, and Nathaniel, sons of John Gay, were b. at Dedham 1639,
1640, and 1642. Nathaniel was admitted freeman in 1675.
GAYLORD, JOHN, Dorchester 1632. Prince, ii. Annals, 60,
where the name is spelled Gallard. *WILHAM, Dorchester, free-
man 1631, representative 1635 and 1636, removed to Windsor with
Rev. John Warham in 1636. He was a deacon before and after
his removal. Rev. William Gaylord, Y. C. 1730 ; Rev. Nathaniel
Gaylord, of Hartland, Conn. Y. C. 1774, and Rev. Flavel S. Gay-
lord, a graduate of Williams College in 1816, are probably descend-
ants.
GEARY, •WILLIAM, a deacon of the church of Roxbury,
was admitted freeman 1652 ; elected representative 1675, d. 4 Sept.
1712. Dunton [2 Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. ii. 103] mentions a captain
Gery, who he says was " as eminent for his love to his country, as
Junius Brutus and the famous ScaBvola among the Romans."
GEDNEY, {BARTHOLOMEW, Salem, son of the following,
was baptized 14 June, 1640, admitted freeman 1669, elected a8si»-
tant 1^0 to 1683, 4 years ; one of Sir Edmund Andros' council
1687 ; one of the first council under the charter of William and
Mary 1692; d. 1 Ma^ch, 1698, ». 58. JOHN, Salem, was born
1603, was admitted to the church in Salem, 19 Nov. 1637, and
freeman the next year, d. 1688 s. 85. His children were, John,
Bartholomew, Sarah, Eli, and Eleazar. His 1st wife was Mary, his
2d Catharine.
GEE, JOHN, Boston, d. 25 July 1693. Rev. Joshua Gee, H. C.
1717, was a colleague minister with Rev. Dr. Cotton Mather, and
d. 22 May, 1748, as. 50.
GEEREE, ARTHUR, (See Gbrht.) DENIS, Lynn 1635, gave
by will to the colony of Massachusetts, ^300. Winthrop, ii. Hist.
N. E. 341. WILLIAM, Salem, admitted to the church 21 Nov.
1640; freeman 1641. Thi« name, according to Mr. Savage, is
spelled Geares in the cdony records.
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GENERE. GERRISH.
GENERE, LAMBERT, Dedham 1636. Worthington, Hist.
Dedham, 42.
GEORGE, JOHN, Chaxlestown, was oneof the founders of the
first Baptist church in Boston 1665, d. at Charlestown, 12 Sept. 1666.
NICHOLAS, Dorchester 1666, d. at Boston, 9 April, 1691. PE-
TER, Braintree 1642, had chUdren, Susan, b. 1642 ; Mary, 1645;
Hannah, 1648 ; John, 1650 ; Samuel, 1651 ; John, 2d, 1653 ; Peter,
1655. RICHARD, Boston 1656. WILLIAM, Lynn 1637. Lewis.
GERRISH, BENJAMIN, Salem, son of Captain William Gerrish,
was bom at Newbury, 13 Jan. 1652, freeman 1681, was collector
of his majesty's customs. He m. Hannah Ruck, 24 Oct 1676, and
d. 2 July, 1713, se. 61, having had 5 sons and 6 daughters. Ben*>
jamin, his eldest son, b. 17 Jan. 1683, was appointed governour of
Bermuda in 1754, and d. in 1755, ae. 72. {JOHN, Dover, brother
of the preceding, was b. 12 Feb. 1645, counsellor of New-Hamp-
shire 1692, a captain, sheriff, &c. d. in 1714, ae. 69. He m. Eliz-
abeth, daughter of major R. Waldron, and his sons were, Richard,
a counsellor of N. H. 1716 ; John, a captain ; Paul, a colonel and
counsellor of Mass.; Nathaniel, a captain; Timothy, a colonel,
who m. Sarah, daughter of Robert Eliot, and whose sons Robert
Biot Gerrish and Joseph Gerrish grad. at H. C. 1730 and 1752;
and Benjamin. A. Gerrish, esq. MS letter, 1828. JOSEPH, min-
ister of Wenham, was inrother of the preceding, was b. 23 March,
1650, grad. at H. C. 1669, freeman 1673, was ordained succesor of
Rev. A. Newman in 1673, d. 20 Jan. 1720, aged 70. He m. a
daughter of Major Waldron of Dover, and had 4 sons, Joseph, Paul,
John, and Samuel. Joseph was born 25 April, 1676, grad. at H. C.
1700, and settled in the ministry ; Samuel was a stationer in Boston,
town clerk and register of deeds, and was an elegant chirographer,
as was his fiither. MOSES, Newbury, brother of the preceding was
b. 9 May, 1656, m. Jane, daughter of Henry Sewall, 24 Sept. 1677,
and d. 4 Dec. 1694, s. 38. One of his sons was Colonel Joseph
Genish, representative many years from Newbury, whose son Joseph
was also a colonel. Col. Samuel, who was engaged in the battle of
Bunker Hill 1775, Colonel Jacob Gerrish of Amesbury, and Colonel
Henry Gerrish, of Boscawen, N. H. a senator in the N. H. legisla^
ture 1793 and 1799, were descendants from Moses Gerrish.
^WILLIAM, Newbury, was born at Bristol, in Somersetshire, 20
August, 1617, and tradition asserts, was an officer under the duke
of Buckingham, but as he came to N. E. before the civil wars in Eng-
land commenced, this may admit of doubt. He was the first captain
of the military band in Newbury; [Johnson, Hist N. E. 193] was
representative of that place, 4 years, fr(»n 1650 to 1653, and of
Hampton in 1663 and 1664. He m. 17 April, 1644, Joanna, wid-
ow of J. Oliver, by whom (who d. 18 June, 1677) he had 11 child-
ren. He m. 2d Ann, daught^ of Richard Parker, and had one son,
Henry, who lived in Boston, and d. without issue. Capt. Gerrish
removed to Boston, and left that place for Salem, 3 August, and d.
there, 9 Nov. 1687, aged 70. WILUAM, the 5t]i son of the pre-
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ceding, was a physician, born 1 April, 1658, m. Ann, his wife, in
1674, and d. at Charlestown, 10 May, 1683, ae. 25.
GERRY, ARTHUR, Roxbury, freeman 1638, d. 17 Dec. 1666,
ffi. 67. WILLIAM, Roxbury. (See Geary.)
GIBBARD, WILLIAM, was secretary of the colony of Connec-
ticut 1657.
GIBBONS, AMBROSE, Pascataqua 1632. Written also Gib-
bens. See Belknap, i. Hist. N. H. App'x. Savage, i. Winthrop,
7, 410, 423. JAMES, Saco 1652. t*EDWARD, came to N. E.
as early as 1629, was admitted freeman 1631 ; representative of
Boston 1635 ; assistant of Massachusetts colony in 1650 ; [Dr. Eliot
says 1644] major-general 1649 to 1651 ; d. 9 Dec. 1654. His sons
Jotham and John were b. in Boston in 1633 and 1641. Savage, i.
Winthrop, 192.
GIBBS, IIBENJAMIN, Boston, was admitted to the first church,
13 July 1662 ; a member of the ar. co. 1666. He had several child-
ren born in Boston. GILES, Massachusetts, was admitted freeman
in 1633. HENRY, came to N. E. from Hingham, England, and
settled at Hingham, Ms. as early as 1635, and d. 7 July, 1676.
Lincoln, Hist. Hingham, 22, 41. HENRY, minister of Water-
town, was son of Robert Gibbs, of Boston, and was b. 8 Oct. 1668.
He grad. at H. C. 1685, was ordained 6 Oct. 1697, d. 21 Oct. 1723,
s. ^. He m. Mercy, Daughter of William Greenough, and his
chUdren were, 1. Elizabeth, b. 12 Jan. 1696, d. 26 May, 1706 ; 2.
Mercy, b. 23 Dec. 1696, who was the 2d wife of Rev. Benjamin
Prescott, of Dan vers, Ms. ; 3. Margaret, b. 3 July, 1699, d. 17 Jan.
1771, who was wife of Rev. Nathaniel Appleton, D. D. of Cambridge,
and had 6 children ; 4. Henry, b. 1702, d. 1703 ; 5. William, b. 11
July, 1704, d. at Cambridge, 10 Aug. 1715 ; 6. Mehitabel, b. 8 Jan.
1706, who m. Benjamin Marston, esq. of Salem, and d. 21 Aug.
1727; Henry, b. 13 May, 1709, m. (1st) Margaret, daughter of
Rev. Jabez Fitch ; (2d) Catharine, daughter of Secretary Josiah
Willard, and d. at Boston, 17 Feb. 1759, ae. 50, leaving by the 2d
wife, Henry, b. 7 May, 1749, m. Mercy, daughter of Benjamin
Prescott, esq. 29 Oct. 1781, and had 3 children, 1. William, of Sa-
lem ; 2. Josiah Willard, professor at Y. C, at which he grad. in
1809, the translator of Gesenius's Hebrew Lexicon, and 3. Henry,
Y. C. 1814, a merchant in Philadelphia. Josiah Willard, b. 30
Sept. 1752, d. in Philadelphia, Jan. 1822, s. 69, having had ten
children. JOHN, arrived at Boston from London in 1637, and
was one of the first settlers of New-Haven, where was a Matthew
Gibbs in 1639, and where William Gibbs d. in 1654, and a John
Gibbs d. in 1690. MATTHEW, a proprietor of Sudbury 1654,
had a son Thomas, b. 10 April, 1660. His wife was Mary. ROB-
ERT, an eminent merchant, descended from an ancient family in
Devonshire, was born a. 1639 ; came to N. E. as early as 1660,
and settled in Boston, where he d. a. 1673. He m. Elizabeth,
daughter of Jacob Sheafe, and had, 1. Margaret, b. 13 May, 1663 ;
2. Robert, b. 20 Sept. 1665, d. at Boston, 7 Dec. 1702, whose wife
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was Mary Shrimpton, by whom he had, Henry, b. 7 Not. 1694,
hved in Newton ; Robert, b. 29 Nov. 1696, who lived at Boston
and Providence, and d. at Providence, 29 June, 1769 ; Mary, b.
28 May, 1699, m. Rev. John Cotton, of Newton ; 3. Rev. Henry,
noticed above, and 4. Jacob, b. 18 Feb. 1672.
GIBSON, CHRISTOPHER, Dorchester, admitted freeman
16di, might be one of the founders of the 2d church in Boston 1650.
JOHN, Cambridge 1634, was living in 1688, at the age of about 87.
See Hutchinson, i. Hist. Mass. 328. His children were Rebecca,
Mary, Martha, John, Samuel, b. 28 Oct. 1644. RICHARD, an
episcopal minister, and one of the first preachers at Portsmouth,
came to N. E. as early as 1640, and probably returned to England.
Winthrop, ii. Hist. N. E. 66.
GIDDINGS, ♦GEORGE, Ipswich, freeman 1638, representative
1641, and 8 years afterwards until his death, 1 June, 1676. He left
a widow Jane, and sons, Thomas, John, James, and Samuel. The
inventory of his estate was ^1021. 12. 6. Felt. •JOHN, Ipswich,
representative 3 years from 1653 to 1655.
GIFFORD, JOHN, Lynn 1658, m. Margaret Temple, and had
a son Philip, who d. 19 June, 1690. Lewis.
GILBERT, JONATHAN, is mentioned under 1646 in Increase
Mather's Indian Wars from 1614 to 1675, pp. 61, 63. Hutch, i.
Hist. Mass. 171. JOHN, Northampton 1653. HUMPHREY,
Ipswich, d. 13 Feb. 1658. MATTHEW, an assistant of New-
Haven colony 1658, was afterwards elected deputy-governour.
THOMAS, Springfield, d. 5 June, 1662. THOMAS, minister of
Topsfield, was a native of Scotland, and arrived at Charlestown
from England, in July, 1661, and soon after settled at Topsfield,
from whence he was dismissed, and went to Charlestown, where he
d. 26 Oct. 1673, s. 63. Middlesex Co. records. Boston News-Let-
ter.
GILDERSLEVE, RICHARD, one of the first settlers of Stam-
ford. Trumbull, i. 121. Six of the name had in 1828 received the
honours of the U. S. colleges.
GILE, or GILES, ANTHONY, a ship carpenter of Boston was
admitted to the church in 1642. JOHN, Boston 1654. (See Guild.)
Rev. Samuel Gile grad. at D. C. in 1804. EDWARD, Salem, was
admitted freeman in 1634.
GILL, ARTHUR, Boston, freeman 1631, had sons, John, b.
1639 ; Thomas, b. 1644. JOHN, Dorchester, admitted to the
church 1640, perhaps d. before 1648. Willard, Hist. Lancaster, 21.
JOHN, Salisbury 1651. THOMAS, Hingham, 1635, had sons
Samuel and Nathan. Four of the name had grad. at H. C. in 1828.
GILLAM, Benjamin, Boston, a ship-carpenter, was admitted to
the church and freeman in 1635. He may be the same who is
mentioned by Morton as going to England in 1664. He had sons,
Zachary, b. 1636 ; Joseph, b. 1644, and probably others.
GILLET, JONATHAN, Massachusetts, was admitted freeman
1635. Samuel Gillet was of Hadley in 1668. NATHANIEL,
Dorchester, came to N. E. in 1630, with the ministers^ Maverick
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GILLET. GLOVER.
and Warham, and was admitted freeman in 1634. Nine of the
name, 6 of them clergymen, had grad. at the N. E. colleges in 1828.
MLLOW, BENJAMIN, Lynn 1637. JOHN, Lynn 1637 ; d.
1673. Lewis. THOMAS, Lynn 1639. Ibid.
GILLOWAY, JOHN, Lynn 1637. Lewis.
GILMAN, EDWARD, probably came from the county of Nor-
folk, England, where some of his friends resided, and settled at
Hingham ; was admitted freeman in 1638 ; removed early to Ips-
wich, where he lived in 1647 ; thence to Exeter before 1652, and
there died. Tradition reports that he had 3 sons, Edward, the fol-
lowing, John, and Moses. Two of his daughters m. a Gushing
and a Hersey. His son Moses lived in that part of* Exeter, now
Newmarket, and had sons, Jeremiah, b. 1660; James, b. 1665;
John, b. 1672 ; David ; Josiah, and Caleb. EDWARD, son of the
preceeding, freeman 1645, was of Ipswich in 1647, of Exeter in
1652. It is said that he went to England in 1653, for mill gear,
and was lost at sea. i^JOHN, Exeter 1657, brother of the pre-
ceding, one of the principal men of that place, and one of the first
counsellors under the province charter 1690, d. 24 July, 1708, ae.
84. He m. 30 June, 1657, Elizabeth Treworthy, who d. 8 Sept
1719, s. 80, by whom he had 6 sons and 10 daughters. Eight of
the daughters married. The sons were, 1. James, b. 6 Feb. 1660
2. John, b. 1663, d. in childhood ; 3. Samuel, b. 30 March, 1671
4. Nicholas, b. 26 Dec. 1672, who m. Sarah Clark, 10 June, 1697
and had 7 sons, of whom were Daniel, born 28 June, 1702, the
fiither of Hon. Nicholas Gilman, b. 31 Oct. 1731, a state counsellor
of N. H. who d. at Exeter, 7 April, 1783, leaving sons, Nicholas,
John Taylor, and Nathaniel, all of Exeter, men much distinguished
in the political annals of N. H., and Nicholas, born 18 Jan. 1707,
grad. at H. C. 1724, was ordained at Durham, N. H. in 1742, and
d. 13 April, 1748, leaving sons, Tristram, H. C. 1757, minister of
North-Yarmouth, Maine, Joseph, a judge in Ohio, and Josiah ; 5.
John, 2d, b. 19 Jan. 1677, who, by two wives, had eleven children,
six sons, of whom were Peter, b. 6 Feb. 1705, a mandamus coun-
sellor of N. H., who d. 1 Dec. 1788, and Samuel, the grandfather
of Rev. Samuel Gilman, H. C. 1811, minister at Charlestown, S. C.
•JOSHUA, representative of Hampton in 1669. Coll. N. H. Hist.
Soc. i. 224.
GILSON, WILLIAM, Scituate, was elected one of the assist-
ants of Plymouth colony in 1633, and d. at Scituate without issue^
Frances, his widow, surviving him.
GINGEN, JOHN, Massachusetts, was admitted freeman in 1646.
Savage, ii. Winthrop.
GIRLING, RICHARD, Cambridge 1635. Dr. Holmes [Amer.
Annals, i. 230] mentions a Girling, who was master of a ship in
1635.
GLOVER, CHARLES, Salem, was admitted to the church 10
May, 1640; freeman 1641; removed to Gloucester; selectman
1644. HABUKKUK, Boston, freeman 1650. 2 Coll. Mass. Hist.
Soc. viii. 105. |*JOHNy Dorchester^ a captain ; representative
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GLOVER. GOFFE.
1637, 13 years ; assistant in 1652 and 1653, died in Jan. 1654.
Savage, i. Winthrop, 46, 212. Johnson calls him '' a man strong for
the truth ; a plain, sincere, godly man, and of good abilities."
Hist. N. E. 109. He had sons, John, Pdatiah, Nathaniel; who m.
Mary Smithy and probably others. JOHN, son of the preceding,
grad. at H. C. 1650, and was, as Rev. Dr. Harris believes, a physi-
cian at Roxbury. It seems from the H. C. catalogue that he re-
ceived the degree of M. D. from the university of Aberdeen.
JOHN, who grad. at H. C. in 1651, was probably son of Rev. Jesr
se Glover, who d. in 1639 on his passage to N. £., although Dr.
Thomas, in his Hist, of Printing, considers the graduate of 1650,
as son of the founder of the first printing establishment in North-
America. NATHANIEL, son of the Hon. John Glover, was ad-
mitted freeman in 1654. Notice of Nathaniel Glover, of this fami-
ly, who d. in London, 13 March 1726, is in ii. vol. Boston News-
letter, p. 59. PELATIAH^ second minister of Springfield, was
son of Hon. John Glover, and was born at Dorchester in 1637.
He was educated at H. C, but did not receive a degree ; was or-
dained 18 June, 1661, d. 29 March, 1692, s. 55, leaving several
children. His wife d. in 1689. RALPH, Massachusetts, requestp
ed to be admitted freeman 19 Oct. 1630, and d. before August,
1633. IITHOMAS, was a member of the ar. co. 1642.
GOARD, RICHARD, Roxbury, admitted freeman 1644, had
sons, John, b. 1643 ; Benjamin, b. 1654.
GOBBLE, JOHN, Concord, with his son John, went to Fair-
field with Rev. John Jones in Sept. 1644. This name exists in
New-Jersey. Shattuck. THOMAS, Concord, admitted freeman
1634, d. 1657. His son Thomas d. 22 Nov. 1690. Ibid.
GODDARD, JOHN, Pascataqua 1631 ; Oyster-River [Durham,
N. H.] 1669. Adams, Annals Portsmouth, 18. MS records.
GODFREY, EDWARD, Pascataqua 1632 ; Kittery 1652, was
one of the aldermen of Agamenticus, [York] and governour of the
province of Maine. Savage, i. Winthrop, 90. FRANCIS, a
carpenter, lived in Bridgewater, and d. in 1669. JOHN, born
in 1622, ^as an inhabitant of Andover. PETER, born in 1631,
died 5 Oct. 1697. He married Mary Broune, the first native of
Newbury, 13 May, 1656. She d. 16 April, 1716, in her 80th year.
WILLIAM, Watertown, freeman 4640, perhaps removed to Hamp-
ton, where a deacon Wilham Godfrey d. in 1671. His son Isaac
was b. at Watertown 1639.
GODSON, FRANCIS, Lynn 1637. Lewis.
GOE, HENRY and RALPH, were among Captain Mason's
company at Pascataqua 1631. Peter Goe lived at the Isles of
Shoals in 1656.
GOFFE, ♦EDWARD, came to N. E. 1635. Cambridge, free-
man 1636, representative 1646 and 1650, d. 26 Dec. 1658. His
children were, Samuel, Lydia, Deborah, Hannah, and Abiah. Sam-
uel was b. in England and left sons, Samuel, John, Nathaniel, and
Joseph. JOHN, one of the proprietors and perhaps an inhabitant
of Watertown, came to N. E. in 1630, in the fleet with Governour
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Winthrop, and was admitted freeman, 18 May, 1631. He probably
went to Newbury, and d. 9 Dec. 1641. WILLIAM, a major-general,
and one of the judges of King Charles I., arrived at Boston in Jaly
1660, lived at Cambridge a short time, which he left 26 Feb. 1661,
for New-Haven, and lived in concealment in various places, and at
last, took up his abode with Rev. John Russell at Hadley, where
he was concealed 15 or 16 years, and where he is supposed to have
died a. the year 1671. Stiles. Hist of the Judges. Hutchinson,
Hist. Mass.
GOLDING, WILLIAM, was present at the Thursday Lecture
in Boston, 5 Nov. 1646, and sailed the same month for England.
He had been the minister of Bermuda. Winslow, N. E. Salamander
Discovered, 17.
GOLDSTONE, HENRY, Watertown, d. 25 July, 1638.
GOLDTHWAIT, THOMAS, Salem, freeman in 1634, was ad-
mitted a member of the church, 5 June, 1637.
GOLT, WILLIAM, Salem, was admitted to the church, 25 Aug.
1639, died a. 1660.
GOODALE, RICHARD, came from Yarmouth, England, and
settled in Newbury, a. 1638 ; removed to Salisbury as early as 1644,
and d. in 1666. Coffin. ROBERT, Salem, 1637. Written some-
times Gdodall and Goodell.
GOODALL, RICHARD, one of the founders of the first Bap-
tist church in Boston 1665.
GOODE, ROBERT, Massachusetts 1646. 2 Coll. Mass. Hist.
Soc. iv. 110. One of the name grad. at Midd. Coll. in 1822.
GOODENOW, •EDMUND, Sudbury, freeman 1640, was the
first lieutenant of the military band in that town, and afterwards
the captain ; representative in 1645 and 1650. His son Joseph
was b. 1645. Johnson, Hist. N. E. 192. JOHN, Sudbury, free-
man 1641, d. 28 March, 1655. John, perhaps his son, was born a.
1635. Revo, in N. E. justified. THOMAS, Sudbury, freeman
1643, was one of the grantees of Marlborough. His son Samuel
was b. 1645.
GOODHUE, •JOSEPH, Ipswich, the eldest son of Deacon
William Goodhue, was admitted freeman 1674; representative
1672 and 1673, a selectman and deacon, d. 2 Sept. 1697, leaving
several children. His wife was Sarah, daughter of John Whipple.
Hon. Benjamin Goodhue, H. C. 1766, a native of Salem, and sena-
tor in Congress, who d. 28 July, 1814, was his great-grandson.
•WILLIAM, Ipswich, was born a. 1615, freeman 1636, selectman,
deacon of the church 1658, representative 1666 and 1667, died in
1699 or 1700. His 1st wife was Margery Watson, by whom his
children were Joseph, William, and Mary. He was one of the per-
sons fined under the administration of Andros. See Revo, in N.
E. justified, p. 16. •WILLIAM, Ipswich, 2d son of the preceding,
one of the first deacons of the church at Chebacco, (now Essex)
was admitted freeman 1681, representative 1691, selectman, cap-
tain, 4* 12 Oct. 1712; His wife was Hannah Dane, by whom he
had several children. Fnuicis, one of them, was b. 4 Oct 1678|
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GOODHUE. OOOKIN.
grad. at H. C. 1699, and was the minister of Jamaica, L. I., and d.
at Rehoboth, 15 Sept. 1707.
GOODMAN, JOHN, Plymouth 1620, one of the first pilgrims,
d. in 1621. RICHARD, Cambridge 1632, was admitted freeman
1634.
GOODRIDGE, BENJAMIN, JEREMY, and JOSEPH, were
inhabitants of Newbury in 1662. Thomas and Sewall Goodridge
grad. at H. C. 1726 and 1764. The name of Goodrich has fur-
nished 15 graduates at Yale College.
GOODWIN, EDWARD, Massachusetts, was admitted fireeman
in 1642. John Goodwin, whose four children were supposed to be
under the power of witchcraft in 1688, lived in Boston. See Math*
er, ii. Magnalia, 396—403. ♦NATHANIEL, Reading, was elect-
ed representative in 1689. *WILLI AM, Cambridge, fi-eeman 1632,
was representative at the first general court of Massachusetts ; re**
moved, it is supposed, to Hadley, and was a ruling elder of the
church there. Savage, i. Winthrop, 142. Sixteen of the name of
Goodwin had grad. at the N. E. colleges in 1828.
GOODYEAR, STEPHEN, New-Haven colony, of which he
was a magistrate in 1637 and deputy-governour in 1641, and gene*
rally continued in that office until 1656. His wife was lost in Mr.
Lamberton's ship, which sailed in Jan. 1646. He d. in London
1657, leaving a respectable family. George Goodyear grad. at Y.
C. in 1824.
GOOKIN, fll^DANIEL, emigrated with his father, in 1621,
from the county of Kent to Virginia, [Lord, i. Lempriere, 745]
from whence he came to N. E. in 1644, principally on account of
the preaching of the missionaries sent thither from N. E. in 1642.
The Magnalia regards him as one of the " constellation'' of con-
verts made by the labours of Rev. William Thompson.
" GooKiNs was one of these : by Thompson's pains,
Christ and New-England, a dear Gookins gains."
He was admitted a member of Boston church, 26 March, 1644,
from whence he was dismissed to Cambridge, 3 Sept. 1648. He
was admitted fireeman 1644 ; member of the ar. co. 1645 ; repre-
sentative of Cambridge 1649 and 1651 ; speaker of the house 1651,
assistant 1652 to 1^6, 35 years; elected major-general 11 May,
1681, and d. 19 March, 1687, ae. 75, leaving 3 sons. His daughter
Mary m. Edmund Butler, of Sdem. Hannah, perhaps his 2d wife,
d. 28 Oct. 1689, ©. 48. DANIEL, minister of Sherburne, Mass,,
son of the preceding, was b. in Cambridge, 12 July, 1650, grad. at
H. C. 1669, d. 8 Jan. 1718, ae. 67. In his house, accidentally
burnt, is said to have perished his father's MS Hist, of New-Eng-
land. NA THANIEL, minister of Cambridge, brother of the
preceding, was b. in Cambridge, 22 Oct. 1656, grad. at H. C. 1675,
ordained the successor of President Oakes, 15 ]^ov. 1682, d. 7 Aug.
1692, 8B. 36. His son. Rev. Nathaniel Gookin, H. C. 1703, was b.
at Cambridge, 15 April, 1687, ordained at Hampton, 1710,^ d. 25
Aug., 1734, ffi. 48. He had a son, Rev. Nathaniel, who grad. at H.
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GOCHCIN. QOUCH.
G. 1731, was ordained the first minister of North-Hampton, N. H.
31 Oct. 1739, d. 22 Oct. 1766, ®. 54. The last Nathaniel waf
father of Hon. Daniel Gookin, state counsellor of N. H. 1808, and
judge of probate from Dec. 1815 to 1827. SAMUEL, Cambridge,
sheriff of the county of Middlesex, was one of the youngest children
of Major-General Gookin, and was bom 21 April, 1652. He was
sheriff in 1689. See Revo, in N. £. justified. His sons Samuel
and Nathaniel were b. 11 Nov. 1681, and 16 Feb. 1686.
GOOSE, WILLIAM, Salem, was admitted to the church, 6 Ang.
1637.
GORDON, JOHN, Bridgewater 1682, 2 Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc.
vii. 149. Nine of the name had grad. at the N. E. colleges in 1828.
GORE, IIJOHN, Roxbury, was admitted freeman 1637, member
of the ar. co. 1638, d. 4 June, 1657. John Gore, perhaps a son, d.
at Roxbury, 26 June, 1705. John Gore, a descendant, grad. at
H. C. 1702. The late Governour Gore is believed to have been of
this family.
GORGES, ROBERT, son of Sir Ferdinando Gorges, came to
N. E. in Sept. 1623, with sundry passengers and families to begin
a plantation. They settled at Weymouth, but soon left the place.
Prince, i. Annals 141. THOMAS, a cousin of Sir Ferdinando
Gorges, came to N. E. in the summer of 1640, and went to York,
where he was the first mayor. He returned to England in 1643.
Hutchinson, i. Hist. Mass. 163. Savage, ii. Winthrop, 9.
GORNHILL, JOHN, Dorchester 1636, was an early member of
the church. Dr. Harris.
GORTON, JOHN, Roxbury, d. 1636. John, probably his son,
was freeman in 1669, and his son John was b. in 1655. SAMUEL,
came to N. E. 1636, remained a short time at Boston, and from
thence went to Plymouth, and in June, 1638, went to Rhode-Island,
laid the foundation of Warwick, a. 1643 ; went to England in 1644^
arrived at Boston on his return in 1648, and preceded to Shawomet,
to which place he gave the name of Warwick, in honour of Robert
Rich, the earl of Warwick ; officiated as a minister, and d. afler
the year 1676, at an advanced age. Allen, Biog. Diet. 314-316.
GOSNOLD, BARTHOLOMEW, the Englishman, who first dis-
covered Cape Cod, 14 May, 1602, and who resided on the Elizabeth
Islands some time, is, perhaps, entitled to a place in this Register.
He d. in Virginia in 1607.
GOSS, JOHN, Watertown 1631. Rev. Thomas Goss, H. C.
1737, was the minister of Bolton, Mass.
GOTT, ♦CHARLES, Salem, arrived there in Sept. 1628, [Prince,
i. Annals, 174] with Governour Endicott ; was a deacon of the
church ; representative 1635, removed to Wenham, which he rep-
resented in 1654. He d. 1667 or 8. His son Charles was baptiz-
ed in June, 1639.
GOUCH, JOHN^ Kittery, freeman 1652. Perhaps this name
should be spelled Gootk, which has had three, Joseph, Joseph, and
James, who grad. at Harvard and Bowdoin in 1720, 1747, and 1823.
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GOULD, JOHN, Oharlestown, freeman 1636, had sons John, b.
1646; John 2d b. 1648. His first wife d. 1647. Sixteen persons
of the name of Gould had grad. at the N. £. colleges in 16^.
*JOHN, Topsfield, freeman 1664, was probably the same who was
prosecuted under Andros' administration, and the representative in
1690. Hutchinson, i. Hist. Mass. 356. JARVICE, Hingham
1635, died at Boston, 27 May, 1656. NATHAN, Connecticut,
was a magistrate or assistant in 1657, and named in the charter of
Conn, granted in 1662. THOMAS, Boston, perhaps the freeman
ofl641-, d. 26 0ct. 1662. THOMAS, Oharlestown, was one of
the founders of the Baptist church, which was gathered at Charles-
town, in May, 1665, and now the first Baptist church in Boston, and
the fiurst who officiated as minister. He d. in Boston in Oct. 1675.
Shaw, Hist. Boston, 243. Benedict, i. Hist. Baptists, 385--391.
ZACCHEUS, Lynn 1640, had a son Daniel. Lewis.
GOULDER, FRANCIS, Plymouth 1644. 2 Coll. Mass. Hist.
Soc. iii. 184.
GOVE, JOHN, Cambridge 1657, had children Mary, John,
Aspinwall, Nathaniel, and James. From him probably descended
Jonathan Gove, H. C. 1768, of New-Boston, N. H. a physician of
some eminence in that region.
GOWING, ROBERT, Dedham, freeman 1644, whose son John
was b. 1645.
GOYT, JOHN, Marblehead 1648. Dana, Historical Discourse.
GRAFFORT, JARVIS, Salem 1637, who may be the same with
Jervas Garford, which see. JTHOMAS, Portsmouth, was a coun-
sellor of the province of New-Hampshire in 1692. He m. Bridget
Daniel, a widow, 11 Dec. 1684, and perhaps removed to Boston,
where Mr. Thomas Graffort died 6 August, 1697.
GRAFTON, JOSEPH, Salem 1637, died in Barbadoes, in Feb.
1670. Savage, i. Winthrop, 332.
GRANGER,* LANCELOT, Ipswich 1648, from thence to New-
bury, where he died. From him descended the Hon. Gideon Gran-
ger, P. M. General of the U. S. Coffin. JOHN, Scituate 1640.
GRANNIS, EDWARD, Hadley 1671.
GRANT, CHRISTOPHER, Watertown 1634, had sons, Joshua,
b. 1637 ; Caleb, 1639 ; Benjamin, b. 1641. EDWARD, Boston,
died, according to an inscription copied into the Dorchester Sexton's
Memorial, p. 29, 12 June, 1630, and was interred in the north bury-
ing ground. Mrs. Jane Grant was of Rowley 1643. JOHN, arriv-
ed at Salem 10 Oct. 1633, with Thomas Wiggin. Winthrop, i.
Hist. N. E. 115. MATTHEW, Dorchester, came over in 1630,
with Maverick and Warham, and was admitted freeman in 1631.
SAMUEL, Boston 1640. SETH, Cambridge 1634, frota whence
he removed.
GRANTHAM, ANDREW, Newbury, d. 15 Dec. 1667.
GRAVES, JOHN, Roxbury, freeman 1637, d. 15 Nov. 1644.
JOHN, Concwd 1643, had sons, Benjamin, who married Mary Hoar
1668 ; John, who married Mary Chamberlain 1671 ; and Abraham.
Sbattttck. JOSEPH, Sudbury, aged a. 46 in 1689, [See Revo, in
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N. E. Justified, 30] may have been son of Thomas Greaves, below.
RICHARD, a pewterer, was a grantee of Salem in 1637, was of
Lynn in 1638, and an inhabitant of Salem in 1655, and perhaps
as early as 1640. SAMUEL, Lynn 1635, had a son Samuel,
and his descendants remain. There was a Thomas Graves of Lynn
in 1638, who d. 24 Jan. 1697. Lewis. THOMAS, Dorchester,
perhaps the freeman in 1640, removed to Virginia, where he, and
his wife, and divers of his children died. Winthrop, ii. Hist. N. £.
342.
GREAVES, THOMAS, Salem, arrived there in June, 1629, and
went the same year to Charlestown, where he died 31 July, 1653.
His son Joseph was b. 1645. There was a Thomas Graves who
requested to be made free 19 October, 1630, who. Prince says, was
afterwards a rear-admiral in England. Prince, i. Annals, 188. ii.
4. 2 Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. ii. 164, 165. ♦THOMAS, Charles-
town, perhaps son of the preceding, grad. at H. C. 1656, was repre-
sentative in 1677 and 1678, a fellow of H. C, died 30 May, 1697,
ffi. 59. Hon. Thomas Greaves, of this family, grad. at H. C. 1703,
was a judge of the supreme court of Mass. and died 19 June, 1747,
95.63.
GRAY, ROBERT, Andover, b. about 1634, d. in 1718, bb. 84,
leaving a son Robert, the ancestor of Rev. Robert Gray, H. C. 1786.
Twenty-five of the name had grad. at the N. E. colleges in 1826.
THOMAS, Marblehead 1631, where he was living in 1648. Sav-
age, i. Winthrop, 85. Dana, Historical Discourse.
GREGSON, THOMAS, New-Haven. (See Grigson.)
GREELEY, ANDREW, was an early inhabitant of Salisbury.
Samuel and Augustus Greele, brothers, from Wilton, N. H., grad. at
Harv. and Dart. Coll. in 1802 and 1813. The former resides in
Boston.
GREEN, BARTHOLOMEW, Cambridge, freeman 1634. His
wife was Elizabeth. Many persons of this name have spelled it
Crreency particularly the Rhode-Island family. The whole number
of graduates (written both ways) at the N. E. colleges in 1826, was
56, eleven of whom had been mmisters. HENR F, the first min-
ister of Reading, resided some time in Watertown ; was admitted
fireeman, 1640, ordained 5 Nov. 1645, and d. 11 Oct. 1648, [Rev.
5. Danforth] though Governour Winthrop assigns the 3d mo. for
his death, but some mistake may have been made in a numeral so
much resembling the 8th. JHENRY, New-Hampshire, was one of
the counsellors of that province in 1685. *HENRY, Maiden, was
representative in 1689. JAMES, Massachusetts, freeman 1647.
||*JACOB, Charlestown, freeman 1650, member of the ar. co. 1650,
representative in 1677, was son of the following. JOHN, Charles-
town, was born in London, and came to N. E. in 1632, with his
wife Perseverance, and 3 children, John, Jacob, and Mary. He
was admitted freeman in 1642, was an elder of the church, and d.
22 April, 1658. Alden, Coll. of Epitaphs. 2 Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc.
ii. 179. JOHN, Providence 1637, afterwards of Warwick, and it
is supposed ancestor of General Nathaniel Greene, the distinguish-
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ed revolutionary officer. Savage, i. Winthrop, 256, 286. || JOHN,
Cambridge, member of the ar. co. 1639. JOHN, freeman 1654,
was probably of Salem. JOHN, Kittery 1652. JJOHN, Rhode-
Island, one of Sir Edmund Andros* council 1687. NATHANIEL,
Cambridge, freeman 1645, was, with his wife, member of the church
in 1658. PERCIVAL, Cambridge, freeman 1636, d. before 1658,
leaving a widow, Ellen, who m. Thomas Fox, and two children,
John and Elizabeth. Percival Greene, H. C. 1680, the first of the
name at that institution, was his descendant according to W. Winth-
rop, and d. 10 July, 168-, ae. 25. RALPH, Boston, had a son John,
b. in 1642. A John Green d. in Boston 1703, se. 54. RICHARD,
brother in-law of Thomas Weston, and one of the managers of his
plantation at Weymouth, d. at Plymouth in 1622. Prince, i. An-
nals, 123. 2 Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. ix. 82. ||RICHARD, member
of the ar. co. 1638. SAMUEL, Cambridge, of Boston in 1686,
[2 Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. ii. 103] and perhaps the freeman 1635,
was a printer and the great ancestor of many of the name, who
have been known in this country for their devotion to the typographic
art. He d. 1 Jan. 1702, ae. 87. His children were Elizabeth, Sa-
rah, Samuel, Joseph, Deborah, Lydia, Jonas, and Bartholomew.
His son Samuel was b. 6 March, 1648, lived in Boston, and d. in
July, 1690, whose son Timothy was one of the first printers in Con-
necticut, and d. 5 May, 1757, sb. 78. Timothy had a son Samuel,
who d. in May, 1752, ae. 40, and was the father of Timothy of New-
London, who d, 10 March, 1796, ae. 59, and grandfather of Rev.
William Green, D. C. 1791, an episcopal minister who settled at
Fredericksburg, Va. SERGEANT, freeman 1636. THOMAS,
Ipswich 1648. THOMAS, sen. died at Maiden, 19 Dec. 1667.
WILLIAM, Charlestown, freeman 1644.
GREENFIELD, SAMUEL, freeman 1635, was of Exeter 1645.
GREENHILL, SAMUEL, Cambridge 1635.
GREENLEAF, EDMUND, Newbury, freeman 1638, is mention-
ed by Johnson [Hist. N. E. 193] as " an ancient and experienced
lieutenant," under captain Gerrish in 1644. He removed to Boston
and d. there. ♦STEPHEN, son of the preceding was born a. 1630,
may have been of Boston in 1657, but resided in Newbury, was
admitted freeman 1677, elected representative in 1676 and 1686,
was a captain of the militia, and d. 1 Dec. 1690. [Coffin.] His
sons were, Stephen, b. 15 Aug. 1652 ; John, b. 21 June, 1662, d.
24 May, 1734; Samuel, b. 30 Oct. 1665; Tristram, b. 11 Feb.
1668 ; Edmund, b. 10 May, 1670. He had 3 daughters, who with
the sons, all married.
GREENLAND, JOHN, Charlestown 1644, had a son John, b.
1644, and admitted freeman 1679. There was a Doctor Greenland
of Newbury in 1665, whose name might be Henry.
GREENOUGH, WILLIAM, Boston 1656, a captain, d. 6 Aug.
1693. Eight of the name had grad. at college in N. E. in 1828.
GREENSMITH, ||STEPHEN, member of the ar. co. 1638.
Winthrop, i. Hist. N. E. 214, 234.
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OREENWAY. GROSVENOR.
GREEN WAY, JOHN, an inhabitant of Dorchester in 1636, was
perhaps the John Grinoway admitted freeman in 163L
GRICE, CHARLES, Braintree, freeman 1651, d. 14Noy. 1663.
Josiah Grice d. at Boston in 1691.
GRIDLEY, IIRICHARD, Boston, freeman 1634, member of the
ar. CO. 1658, was a captain. See Savage, ii. Winthrop, 216. Snow,
Hist. Boston 119. He had sons, Joseph, Believe, a member of the
ar. CO. in 1662 ; and Tremble, b. in 1642. Ten persons of the ,
name had grad. at Yale, and two at Harvard, in 1826. THOMAS, '
was one of the first proprietors of Northampton in 1653.
GRIFFIN, HUGH, Sndbury, freeman 1645, d. 27 June, 1656.
His son Shemuel was b. 1644. Four of the name had grad. at Y.
C. in 1828, of whom was Rev. Edward D. Griffin, D. D., president
of Williams College. JOHN, Connecticut 1646. I. Mather, Ind.
Wars from 1614 to 1675, p. 63. ^RICHARD, Concord 1635,
admitted freeman 1638, representative 1639, 1640, was an elder of
the church, and d. 5 Aug. 1661. He gave his property to Christo-
pher Woolly. Shattuck. RICHARD, Massachusetts, was admits
ted freeman 1657.
GRIGGS, GEORGE, Boston 1636, d. 23 June, 1660. ♦JOSEPH,
Roxbury, freeman 1653, was m. in 1654, representative 1680, d.
10 Feb. 1716, s. 90. John Griggs, perhaps a brother d. at Rox-
bury, 23 Jan. 1692. THOMAS, Roxbury, 1639, d. 23 May, 1646.
GRIGSON {THOMAS, New-Haven, was one of the principal
men, and an assistant of New-Haven colony, and the first settler of
what now forms the town of East-Haven, at a place called Solitary
Grove. He was lost at sea in Mr. Lamberton's vessel, which sailed
from New-Haven in Jan. 1646. Jane, his widow, lived to a great age.
His son Richard lived in London. His daughters were Mary, Anna,
Susan, Sarah, Phebe, and 3 others. Dodd, EastrHaven Register,
123.
GRIMES, SAMUEL, Boston, freeman 1642. A Mr. Grimes
was of Plymouth in 1643.
GRINOWAY, JOHN, admitted freeman 1631. (See Green-
WAY.)
GRISWOLD, FRANCIS, Cambridge 1637, freeman 1645. His
wife was Mary, and their daughter Hannah was b. 1 March, 1644.
The name on the Cambridge records is spelled Greshold, Greshould,
and Grissell. Twenty-one of the name had in 1828 received the
honours of Yale College. EDWARD, came from England in 1639.
with Rev. E. Hewett and settled in Windsor. M'Clure.
GROSSE, ISAAC, Boston, admitted member of the church
1635. Savage, i. Winthrop, 248 ii. 216. EDMUND, Boston, d.
1 May, 1654, having a son Isaac, b. 1642, and probably others.
Rev Thomas Gross grad. at D. C. 1784 and Nahum H. Groce grad.
at H. C. in 1808.
GROSVENOR, JOHN, Roxbury, d. 26 Sept. 1691. William
Grosvenor grad. at H. C. 1693. Twelve others of the name had
grad. in N. E. in 1828.
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GROUT. GUY.
GROUT, JOHN, Sudbury 1646, was bom a. 1619, and was
selectman 30 years, town clerk 7 years, d. 25 July, 1697, s. 78.
Shattuck. A John Grout of Watertown had a son, John born in
1641, who was probably admitted freeman 1680.
GROVER, ANDREW, Maiden, d. 24 April, 1674. EI>.
MUND, Salem 1637, d. June, 1683, bb. 82. Edward and Nehemi-
ah Grover, of Beverly, were admitted freeman in 1678. Joseph and
Stephen Grover, clergymen, grad. at D. C. in 1773 and 1786.
JOHN, Charlestown 1634, had a son John, b. in 1640. A John
Grover d. at Maiden, 19 Feb. 1674. THOMAS, Charlestown
1640, whose son Lazarus was b. in 1642.
GRUBB, THOMAS, Boston, freeman 1634, had sons, John, b.
1638 ; Samuel, b. 1641 ; John, 1644 ; Herman, b. 1646. A Thorn-
as Grubb d. at Boston, 15 July, 1692.
GUILD, SAMUEL, freeman 1642, was perhaps of Dedham.
One of the same name was a grantee of Newbury, and d. at Haver-
hill, 21 Feb, 1683. Six of the name of GuUd had grad. at H. C.
in 1827.
GUILE, JOHN, Boston, was admitted freeman 1643. The
name of Gile exists in Massachusetts.
GUNN, JOSEPH, was admitted freeman by the Mass. colony
in 1636. Moses and Frederick Gunn grad. at Y. C. 1748, and
1810. THOMAS, Massachusetts, freeman 1635. John Gunn waa
a proprietor of Westfield in 1678.
GUNNISON, t|*HUGH, Boston, admitted to the church 1634;
member of the ar. co. 1646, perhaps was of Kittery in 1652, and
the representative of Wells in 1654. He had sons Joseph and
Elihu, born in Boston in 1640 and 1649.
GUPPIE, JOHN, Weymouth, freeman 1653. This name, writ-
ten Guppy, is found in Dover, N. H. and its vicinity.
GURNELL, JOHN, Massachusetts, freeman 1643. Mr. Whit-
man in his Hist, of the Anc. and Hon. Art. Co., p. 153, gives the
name of John Gumall, a member of the Co. in 1640, who may be the
same as the preceding.
GURNEY, EDWARD, Cambridge 1636. John Gurney was an
early inhabitant of Braintree, where his wife d. in 1661. The
name exists in Plymouth county. Rev. David Gurney, II. C. 1785,
was the minister of Middleborough, Ms.
GUTCH, ROBERT, Salem, was admitted to the church, 21
March, 1641, freeman 1642. He removed from Salem.
GUTTERIDGE, ||JOHN, Boston, a tailor, was admitted mem-
ber of the church 1642, member of the ar. co. 1640. His son Jo»
seph was b. 1642. He is probably the same whom Mr. Savage
from the colony records of Massachusetts, calls John Guttering, ad-
mitted freeman in 1642. RICHARD, Guilford 1650. WILLIAM,
Watertown, 1636, had sons, Jeremiah, James, and Benjamin who
were born in 1637, 1639, and 1642.
GUTTERSON, WILLIAM, Ipswich 1648, d. 26 June 1666.
GUY, NICHOLAS, Watertown, a deacon, was admitted freeman
io 1639.
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HACKBURNE. HALE.
HACKBURNE, ABRAHAM, Boston, freeman 1639, had sons/
Isaac, b. 1642 ; Joseph, b. 1652. SAMUEL, Massachusetts, was
admitted freeman 1638.
HACKER, WILLIAM, Lynn 1643. Lewis. Possibly the same
as Hagar below.
HADDEN, JERAD, or GARRAD, Cambridge 1632, [Holmes]
freeman 1634, was one of the proprietors of Salisbury in 1640,
where he was living in 1663. Andrew Hadden, an aged man, died
in Rowley, 1701. GEORGE, perhaps a son of the early resident
at Cambridge, grad. at H. C. in 1647.
HADLOCK, NATHANIEL, Charlestown, freeman 1646, went
to Lancaster. Nathaniel, his son, was b. 1643. John Hadlock, of
Concord, died 1675.
HAGAR, WILLIAM, Watertown, d. 10 Jan. 1685. Uriah Ha-
gar, M. D., grad. at H. C. in 1798.
HAGGETT, HENRY, Massachusetts, was admitted freeman in
1670. The name ofHackett exists in Mass. and N. H.
HALE, JOHNf the first minister of Beverly, was son of I>eacon
Robert Hale, and was born at Charlestown, 3 June, 1636, grad. at
H. C. 1657, was ordained 20 Sept. 1667, was chaplain in the expe-
dition to Canada from 4 June to 20 Nov. 1690 ; d. 15 May, 1700,
e. 64. He m. (1) Rebecca Byles or Byley, 15 Dec. 1664 ; (2) Sa-
rah Noyes, 31 March, 1684 ; (3) widow Elizabeth Clark, 8 August,
1698. He had sons, 1. Robert, born 3 Nov. 1668, grad. at H. C.
1686, was many years a magistrate in Beverly, and died 24 June,
1719, ae. 50 ; 2. James, b. 14 Oct. 1685, grad. at H. C. 1703, or-
dained the minister of Ashford, Conn., 26 Nov. 1718, died in Oct
1742, 8B. 57 ; 3. Samuel, b. 13 Aug. 1687, m. Apphia Moody, 29
May, 1714, settled in Newbury, and had sons, Samuel Hale, A. A. S.,
of Portsmouth, who grad. at H. C. 1740, and d. 10 July, 1807, ». 89 ;
Richard, of Coventry, Conn., the father of Nathan Hale, who was
executed as a spy in the revolution ; and John, of Gloucester ; 4.
John, b. 24 Aug. 1692. A daughter of Rev. John Hale m. Rev.
John Chipman, of the 2d church, Beverly. Samuel Hale, of Ports*
mouth, had sons, Hon Samuel, of Barrington, N. H., who died 28
April, 1828 ; John, H. C. 1779, who d. 13 July, 1791, «. 33 ; Hon.
William, of Dover, and Thomas W. of Barrington. JOHN, New-
bury, son of Thomas, of Newbury, was born a. 1636, and was ad-
mitted freeman 1678, and by 3 wives had sons, John, born 1661 ;
Samuel, b. 1664 ; Thomas, b. 1668 ; Joseph, b. 1674 ; Benjamin,
and Moses. Moses was b. 10 July, 1678, grad. at H. C. 1699, was
the minister of Byfield parish, Ms., and d. Jan. 1743, s. 65. Co^
fin. IIROBERT, a deacon of Charlestown, and one of the founders
of the church in 1632, was admitted freeman in 1634, member of
the ar. co. 1644, an ensign of the military company, died 19 July,
1659. Two of his sons were, John, minister of Beverly, and Sam-
uel, b. in 1644. THOMAS, Masssachusetts, was admitted freeman
in 1634. THOMAS, a glover, born in 1604, came with his wife
Tamosin, and setded in Newbury 1635, admitted freeman 1638,
lived in Haverhill in 1646, afterwards in Salem, but d. in Newbury,
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HALE. HAMBDEN.
Dec. 1682. He had 3 sons, who settled in Newbury, 1. Thomas,
b. 1633, m. Mary Hutchinson, 26 May, 1657, d. 22 Oct. 1688,
leaving sons Thomas, b. II Feb. 1659, was a magistrate, and d. 8
Jan. 1746, having had sons, Ezekiel, b. 1689 ; Ebenezer, b. 1695 ;
Nathan, b. 1691 ; David, b. 1697 ; and Samuel, b. 6 June, 1674 ; 2.
John, b. 1636, who is already noticed ; 3. Samuel, who m. Sarah
Ilsley in 1673. Coffin.
HALL, EDWARD, Cambridge 1636, freeman 1638, perhaps the
son of John Hall, of Lynn, and the one who d. there in 1669, whose
wife was Sarah, and children were Joseph, Ephraim, Sarah, Elizabeth,
Rebecca, and Martha. Sixty-three persons of the name of Hall had
grad. at the N. E. colleges in 1826. Edward was one of the pro-
prietors of Bridge water in 1645. There was an Edward Hall, of
firaintree, whose son John was b. in 1651. JOHN, Lynn, was ad-
mitted freeman 1634. JOHN, freeman 1635, was perhaps of Salis-
bury 1640. JOHN, Charlestown, perhaps the freeman in 1640,
had a son John born in 1645. RALPH, Exeter 1639. Kingsley
Hall, of Exeter, was appointed a provincial counsellor of N. H. in
1698. RICHARD, Dorchester 1644, had son Jonathan born in
1659. ROBERT, a blacksmith of Boston, was a member of the
church in 1634. ||SAMUEL, a member of the ar. co. 1638, may
have been the same who d. in Maiden 1680. Hutchinson, i. Hist.
Mass. 46. 1 Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. ix. 152. •SAMUEL, Salis-
bury 1640, was representative 1655. ♦STEPHEN, Stow, was the
representative in 1689. THOMAS, Cambridge 1648, had wife,
Elizabeth, and three daughters in 1658.
HALLET, ANDREW, Lynn, removed to Sandwich 1637.
Lewis. One of the name is on the catalogue of Brown College.
HALLOWELL, GABRIEL, Plymouth colony, came to N. E.
before 1631, and d. 1664, se. 83. WILLIAM, Boston, 1653, had
sons, William and Benjamin, born in 1654 and 1656.
HALSALL, GEORGE, Boston, freeman 1645, had sons, Joseph,
b. 1644 ; Benjamin b. 1654.
HALSEY, IIGEORGE, was member of the ar. co. 1650. James
Halsey, H. C. 1737, of Dedham, died April 1789, ». 82. Twelve
others of the name had grad. at N. E., N. J., and Union colleges in
1828. THOMAS, Lynn 1637. Lewis.
HALSTEED, NATHANIEL, Dedham, freeman 1641, d. 3 Feb.
1644. NATHAN, Concord 1642. Shattuck. WILLIAM, Con-
cord, d. 27 July, 1645.
HAM, WILLIAM, Exeter 1646. John Ham was of Dover in
1668. John Ham grad. at D. C. in 1797.
HAMBDEN, JOHN, who came from London to N. E. in 1623,
and " wintered with the Plymouth colonists," is supposed by Dr.
Belknap to be the same person, who afterwards distinguished him*
self by his opposition to the arbitrary demands of Charles I. [Belk-
nap, ii. Biog. 229.] The illustrious patriot, John Hampden, was
mortally wounded in Chalgrove field, Oxfordshire, while fighting
against Prince Rupert, and d. 18 June, 1643. He had contemplat-
ed a removal to America, but is said to have been prevented by ex-
press orders firom the King.
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HAMILTON. HANSETT.
HAMILTON, WILLIAM, Boston 1654, had a son GostaTus, b.
in 1654. Sixteen of the name had received the honours of the N.
£. and N. J. colleges in 1828.
HAMLET, JOHN, Boston, was admitted a member of the church
in 1634. WILLIAM, Cambridge and Watertown, freeman 1651,
removed to Billerica, and was one of the first Baptists there. His
children were, Jacob, Rebecca, Sarah, and Thomas.
HAMLIN, :|:GIL£S, Connecticut, was an assistant in 1685.
EZEKIEL, Boston 1655, had sons Ezekiel and Joseph.
HAMMERSTON, EDWARD, Cambridge, d. 24 Aug. 1646.
HAMMETT, THOMAS, Casco Bay 1658. Benjamin and Wil-
Ham Hammett grad. at H. C. in 1766 and 1816.
HAMMOND, BENJAMIN, son of William and Elizabeth Ham-
faiond, a sister of William Penn, came from London to Sandwich,
m. there in 1650, and removed to Rochester. His 2d son, John,
m. Mary, daughter of Rev. Samuel Arnold. ||*LAWRENCE,
Charlestown and Boston, freeman 1666, was member of the ar. co.
1666 ; its lieutenant 1672 ; captain of the militia ; representative
of Charlestown 1672, six years, died at Boston, 29 July 1699.
THOMAS, Hingham 1636, freeman 1637, perhaps the same who
d. at Watertown 1655. Nathaniel Hammond d. at Newton 29 May,
1691. WILLIAM, freeman 1636, d. 8 Oct. 1662, se. 94. Eliza-
both Hammond, probably his widow, d. at Watertown 1669, ». 90.
Mr. Lewis names a William Hammond of Lynn 1636, who d. 1637.
HANCOCK, NATHANIEL, Cambridge 1635, d. before 1652.
His son Nathaniel m. Mary Prentice, 8 March, 1664, and had Nar
thaniel, b. and d. 1655 ; Mary ; Sarah ; Nathaniel, 2d, b. 29 Oct.
1668 ; Abigail ; Samuel, b. 2 Jan. 1673 ; Abigail ; Elizabeth ; Ebeue-
zer, and Joseph. Rev. John Hancock, b. in 1671, was probably
another son, although his birth is not found. He was father to
Rev. John Hancock, of Braintree, whose son John, b. 12 January
1737, was president of the congress which declared the colonies of
America free and independent States on the memorable 4 July,
1776.
HANDFORTH, NATHANIEL, was b. 1608, was a haber-
dasher from London ; settled in Lynn 1637, d. Sept 1687, m, 79.
HANDY, JOHN, Massachusetts, was admitted freeman in 1638.
Perhaps this name should be Hardy, John, who was of Salem in
1638.
HANNUM, WILLIAM, was one of the first proprietors of North-
ampton, 1653.
HANFORD, THOMAS, first minister of Norwalk, came to
N. E. as early as 1650, was probably the freeman in May, 1650,
was ordained in 1654, and officiated, according to Mather, almost
40 years. His descendants are still in Norwalk, and are respectable.
HANMORE, JOHN, Scituate, between 1633 and 1657.
HANNIFORD, JOHN, Boston 1645, had sons, Samuel and
John b. in 1645 and 1652.
HANSETT, II JOHN, Braintree 1644, was member of tbear. co.
1647. His son John b. 1641, d. at Roxbury 1664.
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HARBOUR. HARRIS.
HARBOUR, JOHN, Bnintree, a. 1654. Bj Jael, his wife, he
hid several children.
HARCHER, WILLIAM, Lynn, 1696, removed to Sonth-H&mp*
ton, L. I. a. 1640, but perhaps returned and died at Lynn in 1661.
Lewis.
HARDIER, IJJOHN, was member of the ar. co. 1641, perhaps
of Braintree. RICHARD, freeman 1648, d. at Braintree, 27 De*
cember 1657.
HARDING, ABRAHAM, Mediield, freeman 1645, d. 23 March,
1655. Son Abraham was born 1655. JOHN, Massachusetts, free*
man 1640, may have* been the representative of Medfield in 1689.
^ROBERT, a captain, and one of the selectmen of Boston, was
admitted freeman in 1^1, went to Rhode-Island, where he was an
assistant in 1641.
HARDMAN, JOHN, Lynn 1647. Lewis.
HARDY, JOHN, Salem 1637. Joseph Hardy was of Salem in
1648. RICHARD, Concord 1639. Shatuck. THOMAS, was
one of the 12 first settlers of Ipswich in 1633. Perry, in his Hist.
Sermon, at Bradford, p. 68, speaks of John and William Hardy,
brothers, who came to N. E. in the family of Gov. Winthrop as lar
boorers, to whom the governour gave land in Ipswich. Eight of
the name had grad. at D. C. in 1828.
HARKER, ANTHONY, Boston, was admitted firman 1636.
JOHN, written also Htarker, was of Kittery, and admitted freeman
1652.
HARLAKENDEN, RICHARD, is mentioned by Dr. Holmes
in his Hist. Cambridge, as one of the proprietors of that town in
1632. |R06ER, a lieutenant-colonel, came from Earl's-Colne, in
Essex, in 1635, in the same ship with Sir Henry Vane, settled at
Cambridge ; was admitted freeman 1636, elected assistant 1636 to
1638, 3 years ; d. of the small pox, 17 Nov. 1638, leaving a widow
and two daughters. Savage, i. Winthrop, 277.
HARLOW, WILLIAM, Lynn 1637. Lewis. Rev. WUliam
Harlow, Y. C. 1826, was ordamed at Canton, 18 March, 1829.
HARMAN, NATHANIEL. (See Herman.) One of the name
grad. at D. C, in 1793.
HARNDALE, BENJAMIN, Lynn 1647.
HARNETT, EDWARD, Salem 1643. Edward, his son, was
admitted to Salem church in 1646.
HARPER, JOSEPH, was of Braintree at an early period
HARRADEN, EDWARD, Gloucester 1664.
HARRIMAN, LEONARD, Rowley, was admitted freeman
1647. JOHN, a graduate at Harvard College in 1667, was a cler-
gyman, and perhaps his son.
HARRINGTON, RICHARD, Charlestown 1643, freeman 1647.
ROBERT, Watertown 1642. Five of the name have grad. at H.
C. and 3 at Yale, Brown, and Vermont coUeges.
HARRIS, IIANDREW, was a member of the ar. co. 1639.
Twenty-dght of the name had grad. at the N. E. and N. J. colleges
in 1828. II ANTHONY, member of the ar. ca 1644, belonged to
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Ipswich in 1648. ARTHUR, one of the first settlers of Bridgewa-
ter 1645, removed to Boston, according to Mr. Mitchell, and died
there. GEORGE, Salem 1637. Joseph, of Salem 1652, was prob-
ably his son. JOHN, Rowley, cousin of Rev. N. Rogers, was ad-
mitted freeman in 1647, and had children Ezekiel, Nathaniel, John,
and Mary. Felt. William and Thomas Harris were of Rowley a.
1650. RICHARD, Cambridge, d. 29 August, 1644. ROBERT,
Roxbury, admitted to the church, 8 Aug. 1647, fteeman 1650.
^THOMAS, Providence 1637, was an assistant under the first char-
ter 1654, and under the second, from Charles II, from 1666 to 1669,
four years, died 1685. His son Thomas d. 22 Feb. 1711, whose
son Thomas was b. 19 Oct. 1665, d. 1 Nov. 1741, leaving sons, Hen-
ry, Thomas, Charles, Gideon, and Wait. He had also a son Nich-
olas. THOMAS, Boston, a. 1680, from Patuxet, R. I., and proba-
bly a descendant from the R. I. stock, d. 5 Jan. 1679, leaving a son
Benjamin, b. 1694, d. 1722, whose son Cary, b. 10 Feb. 1720, d.
20 Jan. 1750, was father of Captain William Harris, b. 7 July, 1744,
for several years an instructer of youth in Boston and Charlestown,
and in 1776, an officer in the revolution. He d. at Sterling, Ms.,
30 Oct. 1778, SB. 34. Rev. Thaddeus Mason Harris, D. D., of
Dorchester, H. C. 1787, is a son of Captain Harris. THOMAS,
Ipswich 1648, perhaps also of Rowley. WALTER, Massachusetts,
freeman 1641. WILLIAM, Salem 1635, removed to R. I. 1636,
with Roger Williams ; in 1678, sailed for England, and was taken
by a Barbary corsair, 24 Jan. 1679, carried to Algiers and sold in
the market, and remained in captivity more than a year ; was re-
deemed at the cost of $1200 ; travelled through Spain and France,
and arrived at London, 1680, and d. before Feb. 1681. His child-
ren were, 1. Andrew, b. 1634 or 1635, m. Mary Tew, of Newport
1670, d. 5 May, 1686, leaving Mary and Toleration ; 2. Toleration,
b. 1645, killed by the Indians, 1675; 3. Mary; 4. Howlong, who
m. Arthur Fenner, in 1684. Rev. T. M. Harris, D. D. Ms. letter.
HARRISON, IJEDWARD, Boston, member of the ar. co. 1638.
JOHN, Boston, freeman 1641, had a son John b. in 1652. Mark,
signed the application 1654, in Hutchinson's Coll. 255. ||RICH-
ARD, was member of the ar. co. 1646. THOMAS, who according
to Calamy [ii. Account, 122] was bred in N. E., went to England,
and was a celebrated preacher in London, became a doctor of divini-
ty, and succeeded Dr. Thomas Goodwin. There is a note by Mr.
Savage, [ii. Winthrop, 336] respecting a Mr. Harrison, perhaps the
same.
HART, JOHN, Salem, admited to the church, 30 Sept. 1638 ;
was of Marblehead in 1648^ and d. 1656. Twenty of the name had
grad. at the N. E. colleges m 1828. ISAAC, Lynn 1640, removed
to Reading 1647. EDMUND, Weymouth, was admitted freeman
1634. NATHANIEL, Ipswich 1636. Thomas Hart, of Ipswich
1648, d. there, 8 March, 1674. SAMUEL, Lynn 1640. Lewis.
STEPHEN, Cambridge 1632, freeeman 1634.
HARTSHORN, THOMAS, Reading, was admitted freeman
1648. Descendants are in Amherst, N. H. The late Rev. Levi
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Hartshorn, one of them, grad. at D. C. 1813, was the minister of
the first church in Gloucester, Ms., and d. 27 Sept. 1819, 8B. 30.
HARTWELL, WILLIAM, Concord, freeman 1642, a petitioner
for the grant of Chelmsford, died 12 March, 1690. He had sons,
John, b. 1640 ; Samuel, b. 1645, m. Ruth Wheeler 1665 ; William ;
Martha. His descendants are numerous in Lincoln, Bedford, Ms.,
and New-Ipswich, N. H. Shattuck, MS Hist. Concord.
HAR VARD, JOHN, a minister of Charlestown, was educated
at Emmanuel College, Cambridge ; came to N. E. a. 1636 ; was
admitted freeman, 2 Nov. 1637 ; d. at Charlestown, 14 Sept. 1638,
leaving <£779. 17. 2. for the college which perpetuates his name.
He left a wife, but probably no children.
HARVEY, •THOMAS, Amesbury, a captain of the militia, was
representative at the Dec. session 1690, and Feb. session 1691.
Four of this name had grad. in 1826 at Yale and Dartmouth, viz :
Rufus, Y. C. 1783 ; Joseph, D. C. 1794; Matthew, D. C. 1806, a
member of congress, and Rev. Joseph, Y. C. 1808. WILLIAM,
Boston, freeman 1647, d. 15 August, 1658. He had sons, Thomas,
b. 1641 ; William, b. 1651 ; Thomas, 2d, b. 1652 ; Increase, b. 1654.
HARWOOD, GEORGE, Boston, had a son John bom in 1639.
George Harwood, of London, was treasurer of Mass. company in
1629. HENRY, Boston, came to N. E. as early as 1630, and was
admitted freeman 1633. Winthrop, [i. Hist. N. E. 40.] mentions one
Harwood, '* a godly man," who, Mr. Savage supposes, was Henry
Harwood of Boston. HENRY, Salem,- was admitted freeman 1643.
JOHN, Boston, was admitted freeman 1649.
HASKELL, ROGER, Salem 1637, died in 1667. TOBIAS,
Lynn 1645. Lewis. * WILLI AM, representative of Gloucester
1672, 1679, 1681, to 1683, and 1685, and a lieutenant. Six of the
name had grad. at the N. E. colleges in 1828.
HASSARD, THOMAS, was a ship-carpenter, and lived in Bos-
ton, and was a member of the church, and admitted freeman 1636.
Of the name of Hazard there have been six graduates at Brown,
and two at N. Jersey, College.
HASSELL, JOHN, Ipswich 1636, was admitted freeman 1637.
RICHARD, Cambridge, freeman 1647, had, by Joanna, his wife,
Joseph and Hester, b. in 1645 and 1648.
HASTINGS, JOHN, Braintree, freeman 1645, removed to Cam-
bridge in 1656, and was a deacon of the church. His children
were Walter and Samuel, born in England, and John, Seaborn, and
Elizabeth, baptized at Braintree. He is the ancestor of the gradu-
ates of this name at Harvard College. THOMAS, freeman 1635,
was deacon of the church in Watertown, and perhaps the repre-
sentative of that town in 1673. WALTER, Cambridge 1659, son
of Deacon John Hastings, had children, John, b. 2 Dec. 1660, grad.
at H. C. 1681 ; Walter, b. 1662 ; Nathaniel, b. and d. 1669 , Han-
nah, Sarah, and Elizabeth.
HATCH, PHILIP, Kittery, was admitted freeman 1652. THO-
MAS, Massachusetts, freeman 1634. WILLIAM, Scituate 1633,
died in 1652.
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HATHAWAY. HAVEN.
HATHAWAY, EPHRAIM, came to N. E. a, 1670, with hia
brothers Isaac and Jacob, and settled first at Taunton, that part now
Dighton, where his male posterity remain. John Hathaway, esq.,
of that placQ, the oldest now living, has sons, John ; EphraioL;
Ephraim A. ; Francis ; and Rev. George W. Hathaway, an Episco-
pal clergyman. Isaac and Jacob, brothers of Ephraim, settled in
Freetown, and their descendants are very numerous in Bristol coun-
ty. Thirteen of the name had grad. at the N. £. colleges in 1826.
MS letter of G. W. Hathaway.
HATHERLY, TIMOTHY, an assistant of Plymouth colony
1636, 21 years, came to N. E. in the ship Ann, which arrived at
Plymouth in July, 1623. He d. in 1666, leaving no children. 2
Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. iv. 241.
HATHORNE, ♦JWILLIAM, Dorchester, freeman 1634, repre-
seiitative May, 1635, and Dec. 1636 ; removed to Salem, and ad-
mitted to the church, 12 June, 1637, representative Sept. 1637, and
20 years afterwards, speaker of the house 1644, 7 years ; captain of
the militia 1645 ; major 1656 ; assistant 1662 to 1679, 18 years ;
d. about 1681, s. 74. His sons were, Eleazar, b. 6 August, 1637;
Nathaniel, born 28 August, 1639 ; John, and perhaps others, whose
descendants remain in Salem. JOHN, Salem, probably brother of
the preceding, was admitted to the church 1 Oct. 1643, and d. 12
Dec. 1676. |*JOHN, Salem, son of the Hon. William Hathorne,
was born 4 August, 1641 , admitted freeman 1677 ; elected repre-
sentative 1683 ; assistant 1684 to 1686; one of the first counsellors
under the charter of William and Mary, 1692 ; died 10 May, 1717,
8B. 76. NATHANIEL, probably brother of William and John, was
of Lynn in 1634. Lewis.
HAUGHTON, HENRY, was an elder of the church in Salem,
and d. in 1629. Felt, Annals Salem.
HAULEY, *JOSEPH, was representative of Northampton in
1683, 1685, 1691 and onward, was probably the graduate at H. G.
in 1674, and the ancestor of Col. Joseph Hawley, an estimable
character of Northampton, born in 1724, educated at Yale College,
and d. in 1788, ae. 64. See Tudor' s life of Otis, and Hutchinson,
iii. Hist. Mass. 295. ROBERT, whose name in the colony records
is spelled Haule, was admitted freeman in 1644. THOMAS, Rox-
bury, was slain by the Indians with Capt. Wadsworth and others,
27 April, 1676. His wife d; 1651. He had a son Joshua born in
1654.
HAVEN, RICHARD, came from the west of England, and set-
tled at Lynn 1645, had a wife Susanna, who died 7 Feb. 1682, and
12 children. The sons were, Joseph, b. 22 Feb. 1650 ; Richard,
b. 25 March, 1651 ; John, b. 1656 ; Samuel, b. 1660; Jonathan, b.
1662 ; Nathaniel, b. 1664; and Moses, b. 1667. [Lewis.] Joseph
was one of the first settlers of Framingham, Mass., and was grand-
father of Rev. Samuel Haven, D. D. of Portsmouth, who was born
4 August, 1727, grad. at H. C. 1749, was ordained 6 May, 1752, d.
3 March, 1806, ». 79. The late excellent and esteemed Nathaniel
Appleton Haven, born 14 Jan. 1790, grad. at H. C. 1807, died at
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HAWCHETT HAYNES.
Portsmouth, 3 Jnne, 1826, was grandson of Dr. Haven, being son
of Hon. N. A. Haven, H. C. 1779, and member of congress from
N.H. from 1809 to 1811. '
^ HAWCHETT, JOHN, Massachusetts, freeman 1637. The
name of Hanchet was in Roxbury, and John Hanchet, d. there in
Feb. 1684.
HA WES, BARNABAS, Dorchester 1637. RICHARD,. Dor-
chester, w&s admitted freeman 1638. ROBERT, Salem, a. 1645.
WILLIAM, Boston 1652.
HAWKE, ADAM, Lypn 1637. Lewis. JOHN, Lynn, came
over in 1630, and was admitted freeman 1634. Mr. Lewis says he
died 5 August, 1694. MATTHEW, came from Cambridge, Eng-
land, and settled at Hingham 1638, where he was the second town
clerk. He was admitted freeman 1642. Lincoln, Hist. Hing-
ham, 46.
HAWKESWORTH, THOMAS, Salisbury 1640, d. 8 October,
1651. Coffin.
HAWKINS, ABRAHAM, was admitted freeman 1645, and d.
6 Jan. 1648. JANTHONY, one of the associates named in the
charter of Connecticut, 20 April, 1662, was elected assistant in
1668. JAMES, Boston 1648, had ^ number of sons. William
Hawkins d. at Boston in 1693. ROBERT, Massachusetts, came
to N. E. in 1630, and was admitted freeman 1636. ||*THOMAS,
a captain, and representative in 1639, lived in Dorchester and Bos-
ton, was admitted freeman 1639 ; member of the ar. co. 1644, and
died abroad about the year 1654. Savage, ii. Winthrop, Index.
He had sons Abraham and Job, who were born in 1636 and 1640.
TIMOTHY, Watertown 1638, had a son Timothy born there in
1639.
HAWLEY, ROBERT, and others. (See Hauley.)
HAYBORNE, SAMUEL, Roxbury 1639, d. 27 Dec. 1642. His
Bon John was born 1640.
HAYDEN, JAMES, Charlestown, freeman 1637, had sons,
James, b. 1637 ; John, born 1639, d. 1675. WILLIAM, Windsor
1640. JOHN, freeman 1634, was of Braintree 1640, and had sons,
Jonathan, b. 1640 ; Ebenezer, b. 1645 ; Nehemiah, b. 1647.
HAYES, ROBERT, Ipswich 1638. Felt. Eight of the name
had grad at the N. E. colleges in 1828.
HAYNES, JJOHN, Cambridge, came to N. E. 1633, from Cop-
ibrd-Hall in Essex, in company with Rev. Thomas Hooker, was ad-
mitted freeman in 1634, elected an assistant in 1634 and 1636, and
governour in 1635. He removed to Connecticut in 1636, settled at
Hartford, was elected the first governour of that colony in April,
1639, and every second year afterwards, until his death in 1654.
By two wives he had 8 children, Robert, Hezekiah, John, Roger,
Mary, Joseph, Ruth, and Mabel, the last three by the second wife.
Hezekiah enjoyed Copford-Hall, which descended to his heirs.
Robert d. in England without issue. Roger came to N. E. but re-
turned. Trumbull, i. Hist. Conn. 216, 217. JOHN, son of the
preceding, came to N. E. with his father, grad. at H. C. 1656, re-
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turned, and was admitted to the degree of Master of Arts at Cam-
bridge, England, and was settled in the ministry at, or near, Col-
chester, in Essex, where he left issue. Ibid 216. JOSEPH,
brother of the preceding, grad. at H. C. 1658, became the minister
of Hartford, and d. 24 May, 1679, leaving one son, John, a magis-
trate, and judge of the superiour court of Conn., who grad. at H. C.
1689, and had sons who d. without issue. JOHN, Sudbury 1640,
freeman 1646, was representative 1669. He may be the John
Haynes who was one of the selectmen 18 years, and deacon of the
church, who died 11 Dec. 1710. JAMES, Massachusetts, freeman
1638. SAMUEL, Portsmouth, a deacon and one of the founders
of the church 1671, m. Mary Fifield, 9 Jan. 1673, and had sons,
Matthias, b. 7 March, 1677; William, b. 7 Jan. 1679 ; Samuel, b.
5 July, and 3 daughters. His descendants* of which there are ma-
ny in N. H., write the name Haines, Mr. Coffin gives me the name
of Samuel Haines, born in 1611, who came from London and was
wrecked at Pemaquid in August, 1635. THOMAS, Sudbury, d.
28 July, 1640. •WALTER, Sudbury, freeman 1640, representa-
tive 1641, 1644, 1648, 1651, one of the selectmen 10 years, died 14
Feb. 1665. WILLIAM, Salem, was admitted to the church 1648.
HAYWARD, GEORGE. JSee Heywood.) JAMES, Woburn,
d. 20 Nov. 1642. •JOHN, Watertown 1640, perhaps also at Ded-
ham, and the representative in 1645. A John Hayward died at
Charlestown, 29 Dec. 1672. JOHN, spelled also Hayward and
Howard, was brought up in the family of Captain Myles Standish,
was a carpenter, and lived in Bridgewater ; represented that town
at Plymouth court 1678. He was the ancestor of Rev. Simeon
Howard, of Boston, H. C. 1758, who d. 13 Aug. 1804, se. 71, Rev.
Zechariah Howard, of Canton, Mass., H. C. 1784, and of Rev. Be-
zaleel Howard, D. D.. of Springfield, Mass., who grad. at H. C.
1781. ROBERT, Northampton 1659. SAMUEL, Charlestown,
was admitted freeman 1649 ; perhaps also of Boston, where Samuel,
son of Samuel Hayward, was bom 1646. THOMAS, Cambridge
1635, Bridgewater 1651, d. in 1681. ♦WILLIAM, Hampton, free-
man 1640, was representative from 1641 to 1645, five years.
HAYWOOD, JOHN, was made postmaster of the whole colony
of Massachusetts in 1678. Felt, Annals, 260.
HAZELTINE, JOHN, Rowley, was admitted freeman 1640,
removed to Bradford. ROBERT, Rowley, freeman 1640, m. Ann,
his wife, in Oct. 1639, and his was the first marriage in Rowley.
HAZEN, EDWARD, was of Rowley 1650. Richard Hazzen
was a constable of Haverhill in 1702. Richard Hazzen, perhaps
his son, grad. at H. C. 1717, and d. at Hampstead, N. H.
HEALD, JOHN, Concord, freeman 1641, according to tradition,
came from Berwick, England. He d. 24 May,,1662. By Dorothy,
his wife, he had 4 sons and 4 daughters. John and Gershom were
two of the sons. Shattuck.
HEALEY, WILLIAM, Cambridge 1645, had children, Hannah,
Elizabeth, Sarah, William, Grace, Nathaniel, Martha, Samuel^ Paul,
and Mary. THOMAS, Cambridge 1635.
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HEARD. HERRICK.
HEARD, JOHN, Dover, had children, Benjamin, bom 20 Feb.
1644 ; Mary ; Abigail ; Elizabeth; Hannah ; John, b. 24 Feb. 1659 ;
Joseph, b. 4 Jan. 1661 ; Samuel, b. 4 Ang. 1663 ; Catharine ; Tris-
tram, b. 4 March, 1667. His wife was Elizabeth, who escaped de-
struction when Major Waldron and many others were killed in
1689. See the 1st vol. of Belknap's Hist N. H. , sub anno 1689.
JOSEPH, Massachusetts, was admitted 1657. LUKE, Newbury,
was admitted freeman 1639, went to Salisbury, thence to Ipswich,
and died a. 1647, leaving two sons, John and Edward, and a widow
Sarah, who was a Wyatt, from Assington, Essex. THOMAS; Pas-
cataqua 1631. WILLIAM, Plymouth 1623.
HEATH, BARTHOLOMEW, was born a. 1600, settled in New-
bury, where his son John was b. 15 Aug. 1653. Coffin. *ISAACy
Roxbury, freeman 1636, was representative in 1637 and 1638, per-
haps d. 29 Dec. 1694. ISAAC, Roxbury, freeman 1652, had a
son Isaac, b. in 1655, and d. 12 Nov. 1684. ^ISRAEL, Roxbury,
appears to have been representative in 1636, 1637. PELEG,
Roxbury, was admitted freeman 1652. ♦WILLIAM, Roxbury,
freeman 1634, was representative at the first general court at Bos-
ton, 14 May 1634, and in 1637, 1639 to 1642, six years, and in
1645 for Dover. He d. 30 May, 1652.
HEATON, NATHANIEL, Massachusetts, freeman 1636. Sam-
uel and Rev. Stephen Heaton grad. at Y. C. in 1728 and 1733.
HEDGE, JOHN, born a. 1610, came to N. E. and settled at
Lynn, 1634. WILLIAM, Lynn, freeman 1634, perhaps to Sand-
wich 1637. One of this name was one of the first settlers of East*
Hampton, L. I. 1650.
HEMAN, FRANCIS, Massachusetts, freeman 1646.
HEMINGWAY, RALPH, Roxbury, freeman 1634, d. 12 June,
1699. He had sons, John b. 1641 ; Joshua, b. 1643. His descend-
ants write the name Hememway and Hemmentoay, two of whom,
Rev. Phinehas and Rev. Moses, D. D. grad. at H. C. in 1730 and
1755. SAMUEL, New-Haven 1662, d. 20 Sept. 1711, bb. 75. Rev.
James Heminway grad. at Y. C. in 1704.
HENCHMAN, ||DANIEL, Boston, a member of the ar. co. 1675,
was a distinguished captain in Philip's war. THOMAS, Chelms-
ford. (See HiNCHMAN.) WILLIAM, Boston 1653.
0ENING, RICHARD, Newbury 1674. The name of Hennm
exists in New/England.
HENDRICK, ♦DANIEL, Haverhill, was born a. 1610, repre-
sentative in 1681, and was living in 1700.
HENRICKSON, PETER, Boston, had a son John, b. in 1642.
HEPBURN, GEORGE, Massachusetts, was admitted freeman
1636. Samuel Hepburn grad. at N. J. College in 1803.
HERBERT, JOHN, Salem 1637, freeman 1641, went to South-
Old, L. I. SYLVESTER, Boston 1652.
HERMAN, NATHANIEL, Braintree 1640, freeman 1643, had
a son Nathaniel, b. in 1640.
HERRICK, HENRY, Salem 1629, was admitted freeman 1631,
was one of the founders of the church in Beverly 1667, d. in 1670.
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HERRICK. EflBBINS.
WILLIAM, was one of the grantees named in the Indian deed of
South-IIampton, L. I. 1640.
HERRING, THOMAS, Massachusetts, freeman 1654. This
name has existed in the state of N. J.
HERSEY, IIWILLIAM, Hingham 1635, freeman 1638, member
of the ar. co. 1652, had a son William, who was m. in 1656. Lin-
coln says the name is written in the Hingham records Hersie, Hot-
sie, and Hearsey*
HETHERSAY, ROBERT, Charlestown, 1641. Coffin.
HETT, THOMAS, Hingham 1637, was admitted freeman 1642.
Winthrop, ii. Hist. N. £. 129. A Thomas Hett, sen., d. at Charles-
town 6 June, 1668.
HEWENS, JACOB, Dorchester, was admitted to the church
1658 ; freeman 1660. Son Samuel was b. 1658. James Hewins
grad. at H. C. in 1804.
HEWES, EDWARD, Massachusetts, freeman 1636. JOHN,
Scituate 1639, Plymouth 1643. ||*JOSHUA, Roxbury, freeman
1634, was representative in 1641 ; member of the ar. co. 1643,
(spelled Hughes by Whitman) had sons, Joshua, b. 1639 ; Joshua,
2d, b. 1639, and perhaps d. at Boston 1706. ||Joseph, member of
the ar. co. 1637, probably belonged to Lynn. RICHARD, Dor-
chester 1637. ROBERT, Lynn 1642.
HEWETT, EPHRAIM, minister of Windsor, d. 4 Sept.
1644. Johnson, [Hist. N. E. 2221 in some elegiac verses on seve^
ral of the ministers who had died before 1650, says,
'' And Huet had his arguings strong and bright,"
but the name is erroneously printed Hest^ in the copy of his work
published in ii. Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. viii 25. NICHOLAS, Bos-
ton, had a son Zebadiab, b. in 1644.
HEYDEN, JOHN. (See Haypen.)
HEYMAN, JOHN, Charlestown, 1677. Spelled also Hemcai
and Hayman. •SAMUEL, Watertown, representative 1690, was
one of the counsellors named under the charter of William and
Mary, granted in 1691.
HEYWOOD, GEORGE, Concord, one of the earliest settlers,
d. 14 April, 1671 ; had sons, John, b. 1640, m. Anna White 1671 ;
Joseph, b. 1643, m. Hannah Hosmer 1665 ; Simon ; George, b-
1654. Shattuck, MS Hist. Concord. JOHN, Concord, m. Susan-
na Atkinson 1656, who d. 1665 ; m. Sarah Symonds in 1665, by
whom he had John, b. 1662 ; Benone, b. 1666 ; William, b. 1674,
and several daughters. He d. 11 Jan. 1707. Ibid. Five of the
name had grad. at Harv. and Dart, in 1828.
HIBBERT, ROBERT, Salem 1646, afterwards of Beverly, and
d. there, 7 May, 1684, ae. 72. Joseph Hibbertd. there 1701, ae. 53.
Rev. Thomas Hibbert, of Amesbury, grad. at H. C. 1748, and d.
Sept. 1793, SB. 60. This name is also spelled Hebard and Hibbard,
Rev. Augustine Hibbard grad. at D. C. in 1772.
HIBBINS, J*WILLIAM, a merchant of Boston, freeman 1640,
representative 1640, 1641, was elected assistant 1643 to 1654,
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HICHBOltN. HILL.
twelve years, d. 23 July, 1654. His widow Anne was executed in
Jane, 1656, for the supposed crime of witchcraft. Hutchinson, i.
Hist. Mass. 173.
HIGHBORN, DAVID, Boston 1654. Benjamin, Benja. A., and
Doddridge C. Hichbprn grad. at H. C. in 1768, 1802, and 1816.
HICKS, RICHARD, Boston 1649, had sons Timothy, b. 1649,
and Richard, b. 1656. ROBERT, Plymouth 1623. ZECHARI-
AH, Cambridge 1657, had sons, Zechariah, b. 1657 ; John, b. 1660 ;
Thomas.
HIDE, EDMUND. (See Hyde.)
HIGGINS, ABRAHAM, Salem 1637. JOHN, Boston, 1655.
RICHARD, Eastham 1644.
HIGGINSON, FRANCIS, one of the first ministers of Salem,
was educated at Emmanuel College in Cambridge ; came to N. E. in
June, 1629, was ordained at Salem, 6 August, 1629, and d. in Au-
gust, 1630, leaving a wife and eight children. His son Francis,
was admitted a member of the church in Salem, 14 April, 1639 ;
went to England, and was settled the minister of Kirkby-Steven, in
Westmoreland, where he died a. 1670, in his 55th year. JOHN,
the sixth minister of Salem, son of the preceding, was b. 6 Aug.
1616, came to N. E. with his father, was a preacher in 1637, and
officiated some time as chaplain at Saybrook fort ; removed in 1641
to Guilford ; in 1659 to Salem, where he was ordained in August,
1660, d. 9 Dec. 1708, 8B. 92, having been a minister of the gospel
72 years. *JOHN, Salem, son of the preceding, was admitted free-
man 1677, was representative in 1689. His son John was born in
August, 1675, and m. Hannah Gardner, 11 Sept. 1695, and had a son
John, b. 10 Jan. 1698, grad. at H. C. 1717, was register of deeds,
and d. in July, 1746.
HIGGS, JOHN, perhaps Hicks, d. at Boston, 22 Oct. 1693.
HlLDRETH, RICHARD, Cambridge, freeman 1642, was a pe-
titioner for the grant of Chelmsford in 1653, where many of his
descendants have resided. Sarah, his wife, d. 15 June, 1644, and
by another, Elizabeth, he had Sarah, b. 8 Aug. 1648.
HILL, ABRAHAM, Charlestown, freeman 1640, d. at Maiden,
13 Feb. 1670. Two of his sons were, Isaac, b. 29 Oct. 1641, who
m. Hannah Hayward in 1666 ; and Abraham, b. Oct. 1643, who
had a son Abraham, b. in Aug. 1670. He is the ancestor of the
Hills of Cambridge, and of several families in New-Hampshire.
Thirty persons of the name of Hill had grad. at the N. E. colleges
in 1826. ||JOHN, Dorchester, freeman 1642, member of the ar.
CO. 1643, had a son Samuel, b. in 1640. Jonathan Hill of Dor-
chester went early to Dorchester. John Hill was of Medfield in
1658. JOHN, Boston, a blacksmith, was a member of the church
in 1640. There was a John Hill of Rowley before 1652, and a
John Hill of Beverly in 1659. ||JOHN, a merchant, was admitted
to the church in Boston 1645, freeman 1646 ; member of the ar,
CO. 1647, was a captain of the militia. Snow, Hist. Boston 124.
•JOSEPH, Maiden. (See Hills.) PETER, Saco 1652. RALPH,
one of the first settlers of Billerica, in 1653, d. 29 Nov. 1663,
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leading sons, Ralph, Jonathan, and Nathaniel, who all settled in
Billerica. *RALPH, Bilierica, son of the preceding, was repre-
sentative in 1689, 1692, 1693, and 1694 ; was a captain of the mil-
itia, and a selectman 11 years; d. 2 May, 1695. RICHARD,
New-Haven 1639. THOMAS Plymouth 1638. WILLIAM, Con-
cord, freeman 1633, removed to Fairfield Sept. 1644, with Rev.
John Jones. Shattuck. WILLIAM, Massachusetts, freeman 1634.
WILLIAM, Windsor 1640. ||»VALENTINE, Boston 1638, free-
man 1640, member of the ar. co. 1638, representative 1652 to 1655
and 1657, d. 1662. He m. Mary, daughter of Govemour Eaton, of
HILLIARD, ANTHONY, Hingham 1638. Lincoln, Hist.
Hingham. EMANUEL, Hampton, was lost with six others in a
boat going from Hampton, 20 Oct. 1657. Timothy Hilliard, per-
haps his son, was of Hampton, in 1686, and was probably the ances-
tor of Rev. Timothy Hilliard H. C. 1764, of Barnstable and Cam-
bridge, who was born in Kensington, N. H., and d. 9 May, 1790,
SB. 43. HUGH, Massachusetts, freeman 1644. JOB, Salem 1653,
is styled a fisherman. WILLIAM, Boston 1642.
HILLYER, JOHN, Windsor, 1640.
HILTON, EDWARD, the father of the settlement of New-
Hampshire, came from London, and settled at Dover in the spring
of 1624, where he resided from 15 to 20 years, and then removed
to Squamscot Patent, or Exeter, and d. a. 1671, leaving an estate
apprised at ^^2204. His sons, Edward, William, Samuel, and
Charles were his administrators. EDWARD, the eldest son of the
preceding, m. Ann, the daughter of Rev. Samuel Dudley, and
grand-daughter of Governours, Dudley and Winthrop, and had
children, Winthrop, Dudley, Joseph, Jane, Ann, Mary, and Sobrie-
ty, and d. in 1699. Winthrop, the eldest son, born a. 1671, was
appointed a counsellor of N. H., but did not serve ; was a distin-
guished officer in the wars with the Indians, by whom he was killed
m June 1710. Farmer and Moore, i. Hist. Coll. 241—251. ♦WIL-
LIAM, brother of Edward Hilton, with whom he settled at Dover in
1623, appears to have been at Plymouth in 1621. He was repre-
sentative in 1644, when he lived in Newbury^ where he had child-
ren born ; Sarah, 1641 ; Charles, b. July, 1643 ; Ann, b. 1649 ;
Elizabeth 1650, and William, b. 1653. He may have been also of
Charlestown, where William Hilton, d. 7 Sept. 1675, having had
sons, Nowell and Edward born there, 4 May, 1663, and 3 March,
1665. John Hilton d. in Boston in 1705.
HILLS, HERCULES, Scituate, returned id England. 2 Coll.
Mass. Hist. Soc. iv. •JOSEPH, was born a. 1602, came to N. E.
and was admitted freeman 1645, first resided at Charlestown, then
at Maiden, and last at Newbury, where he d. 5 Feb. 1688, se. 86.
He was representative of Maiden in 1647 and from 1650 to 1656,
and speaker in 1647, and represented Newbury in 1667. He wrote
(lis name Hilk, He had sons, Joseph, who d. 1674 ; Oershom, b.
27 July, 1639, and other children. His 2d wife, Anne, widow of
Henry Lunt, he m. 8 March, 1664.
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iftNCffMAN. HOAR.
HINCHMAN, EDMUND, Chelmsford, died 2t Oct. 1668, and
his widow, Elizabeth, m. Re?. John Fiske. Alleh, Hist. Chelms-
ford. ♦THOMAS, Chelmsford, freeman 1654, was a magistrate,
and a major of the Middlesex regiment ; a representative in 1666,
1667, 1671, and 1676 ; d. 18 July, 1703. He wrote his name as
abore, which was pronounced as if spelled Hinksmttn,
HINCKLEY, SAMUEL, was an inhabitant of Scituate in 1638.
J^THOMAS, Plymouth, son of the preceding, was an assistant of
Plymouth colony, one of Sir Edmund Andros' council 1687, was
elected governour from 1680 to 1689, excepting the time Androd
exercised his power. He died in 1706, se. 88.
HINCKS, JJOHN, Portsmouth, Was a counsellor in 1683. This
niime is frequently written Hinks and Hinckes. Samuel Hinks
grad. at H. C. 1701.
HINDS, JAMES, Salem 1687. Four of the name have received
the honours of Harvard and Williams colleges.
HINSDALE, ROBERT, Dedham, freeman 1638, was one of
the founders of the church, 9 Nov. 1638 ; removed to Deerfield.
[ Worthington, Hist. Dedham.] Two of his sons were, Barnabas, b.
in 1639, and settled in Hadley ; and Gamaliel, born in 1642. The
towh of Hinsdale, in N. H. derives its name from Colonel Ebenezer
Hinsdale^ one of his descendants. Rev. Ebenezer Hinsdell, another
of them, grad. at H. C. 1727.
HINSON, RALPH, Boston, woollen-draper, was a member of th^
church a. 1634.
HITCHCOCK, MATTHIAS, New-Haven 1639, had sons, Eii^
akim, Nathaniel, and John. Sixteen of this name had grad. at the
N. E. colleges in 1826. •RICHARD, Saco 1652, was a represent-
ative in 1660.
HITCHEN, EDWARD, Massachusetts, freeman 1635.
HOADLEY, JOHN, Guilford 1648, was one of the seven pillars
of the church. 1 Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. X.
HO AG, JOHN, Newbury 1669, had sons, John, b. 1670; Jona-
than, b. 1671 ; Nathan ; Benjamin ; and probably others, whose
descendants abotind in N. H. Samuel W. Hoag grad. at Union
College in 1821.
HOAR, JOHN, Concord 1660, had brothers, Daniel, who d. in
London, and the following. He was the deliverer of Mrs. Rowland-
son in 1676. He died 2 April, 1701. Daniel, his only son, was
great-grandfather of the Hon. Samuel Hoar, of Lincoln, Ms. Shat-
tuck. LEONARD, the third president of Harvard College, at
which he grad. in 1650, went to England, was a physician and cler-
gyman, and settled as the latter, at Wensted, in Essex. He was
ejected from office for non-conformity, and returned to N. E. 1672,
and in July, was elected president, but resigned 15 March, 1675,
and d. at Braintree, 28 Nov. same year. He had no sons, but two
daughters, Bridget and Tryphena. His widow, a daughter of Lord
Lisle, m. Mr. Usher, of Boston, and d. 25 May, 1723. Mrs. Joanna
Hoar, probably his mother, d. at Braintree, 21 Dec. 1661. A Wil-
liam Hoare was of Beverly in 1659.
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HOBART. HOBSON.
HOB ART, CALEB, Braintree, who d. 4 Sept. 1711, m. 89, was
probably son of Thomas Hobart, of Hingham. ♦EDMUND, free-
man 1634, came from Hingham, in England, in 1633, and settled
at Charlestown, from thence to Hingham, in 1635, which he repre-
sented from 1639 to 1642, four years. He d. 8 March, 1646, leaY-
ing sons, Edmund, Thomas, Peter, Joshua, and two daughters.
EDMUND, Hingham 1635, son of the preceding, d. in 1686, ae. 82.
His children were Daniel, Samuel, and John. GERSHOM, son
of Rev. Peter Hobart, grad. at H. C. 1667, was admitted freeman
1673, was ordained at Groton, Mass., 26 Nov, 1679 ; dismissed by
the town, Dec. 1685, d. 19 Dec. 1707, sb. 62. JEREMIAH, bro-
ther of the preceding, grad. at H. C. 1650, was ordained at Tops-
field, 2 Oct. 1672, dismissed 21 Sept. 1680 ; went to Hempstead,
L. I., was there settled 1682, removed to Haddam, Conn., and re-
installed there 14 Nov. 1700; died in March 1717, «. 87. He m.
Dorothy, daughter of Rev. Samuel Whiting, of Lynn. JAPHET,
brother of the preceding, was born in April, 1647, grad. at H. C.
1667, went to England before 1670 in the capacity of surgeon of a
ship, with a design to go from thence to the East-Indies, but was
never heard of afterwards. Lincoln, Hist. Hingham, 115. JOSH-
UA, the minister of South-Old, L. I., brother of the preceding, was
born in England, grad. at H. C. 1650, d. in Feb. or March, 1717 ae.
89, having been settled there 45 years. Savage, ii. Winthrop, 222.
Wood, Hist. Siketch. ||* JOSHUA, a captain, son of Edmund Ho-
bart, lived in Hingham, was admitted freeman 1634, member of the
ar. CO. 1641, representative 1643, twenty-five years, speaker of the
house 1674, d. 28 July, 1682. His children were, Joshua ; Enoch,
b. 1654; and probably Solomon, and two daughters. Lincoln,
Hist. Hingham. NEHEMIAH, second minister of Newton, Ms.,
was son of Rev. Peter Hobart, was born 21 Nov. 1648, grad. 1667,
at H. C. of which he was fellow from 1707 to 1712 ; was ordained
23 Dec. 1674 ; freeman 1675, d. 12 Aug 1712, jb. 64. His wife
was Sarah, daughter of Edward Jackson, sen. PETER, the
first minister of Hingham, was the son of Edmund Hobart, and b.
at Hingham, England, in 1604, was educated at the university of
Cambridge, came to N. E. 8 June, 1635, and admitted freeman
same year. He settled at Hingham in Sept. 1635 and there died
20 Jan. 1679, in his 75th year. Lincoln gives the names of his
children, Joshua,. Jeremiah, Gershom, Japhet, Nehemiah, David,
Josiah, Israel, and 3 daughters. SAMUEL, Massachusetts, whose
name is spelled Hubbert, was admitted freeman 1635. THOMAS,
son of Edmund Hobart was admitted freeman, 1634, settled in
Hingham 1635, and had sons, Caleb, Joshua, and Thomas. Lin-
coln, Hist. Hingham, 156.
HOBBS, CHRISTOPHER, Saco 1652. Maurice Hobbs was
of Newbury. Richard Hobbs, of Newbury, was drowned 1665.
Humphrey Hobbs was one of the founders of the church at Am-
herst, N. H. 1741. Thomas Hobbs d. at Boston 1690.
HOBSON, HUMPHREY, Rowley 1665, was admitted freeman
1665, and probably ancestor of Humphrey Hobson, a magistrate of
Mass. 1747. WII.LIAM, Rowley, died a. 1659.
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HODGKINS. HOLMAN.
HODGKINS, WILLIAM, Ipswich 1666, died 26 Dec. 1693.
Felt.
HODGKINSON, WILLIAM, Plymouth 1623.
HODSON, GEORGE, Cambridge 1641, came over, it is sup-
posed, in 1630. His son Abiah was b. 1648. Nathaniel Hodson
grad. at H. C. 1693.
HOFFARD, WILLIAM, Windsor 1640.
HOGG, RICHARD, Boston, a tailor, freeman 1640, had sons,
Joseph, b. 1636, and John, b. 1643.
HOLBROOK, ♦JOHN, Weymouth, freeman 1640, representative
1651, 1664, 1669, 1671 to 1673, 1680, 1681, 1685, 1686, and
1692 ; was a captain of the militia. A John Holbrook died in
Roxbury, 25 Dec. 1678. RICHARD, freeman 1648, might be
one of the first settlers of Huntington, L. I. THOMAS, Braintree,
freeman 1645, had sons, John and Peter, b. in 1653, and 1655.
WILLIAM, Weymouth, freeman 1647, had a son William born
in 1657.
HOLCOMB, THOMAS, came from England in 1639 with Rev.
E. Hewett. M'Clure.
HOLCOMBE, THOMAS, Massachusetts, freeman 1634. Rev.
Reuben and Rev. Frederick Holcombe grad. at Yale and Williams
in 1774, and 1809.
HOLDEN, JUSTINIAN, a proprietor of Watertown, was ad-
mitted freeman 1657, was of Cambridge 1672, and appears to have
been of Groton in 1677. RANDALL, Massachusetts, came to N.
E. in a London ship 1646, went to Rhode*Island. Savage, ii.
Winthrop, Index. 1 Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. vii. 93. RICHARD,
Watertown, had a son Stephen, b. in 1642.
HOLGRAVE, ♦JOHN, Salem, fireeman 1633, was representa-
tive at the first general court at Boston, 14 May, 1634. JOSEPH,
Salem 1637. JOSHUA, Salem, was admitted to the church, 12
Nov. 1637.
HOLLEY, SAMUEL, Cambridge 1636. His will, dated 22
Oct. 1643, is on the Suffolk co. records. Eight of the name had
grad. at the N. E. colleges in 1828.
HOLLIGE, RICHARD, Boston, was admitted to the church and
freeman in 1639.
HOLLIMAN, EZEKIEL, Salem, of Dedham in 1635, went to
R. I., and was one of the founders of the first Baptist church in
America. Savage, i. Winthrop, 293. Benedict, Hist. Baptists.
HOLLINGWORTH, RICHARD, Salem 1637, d. 1654. His
son Richard was made freeman 1665. Savage, ii. Winthrop, 24.
HOLLISTER, ♦JOHN, Weymouth, fireeman 1643, was repre-
sentative 1644. There appears to be two of this name admitted
freemen in 1643. The name exists in Vermont.
HOLLOWAY, JOSEPH, Lynn 1636, removed to Sandwich
1637. JOSEPH, Lynn 1656, d. 29 Nov. 1693. Lewis.
HOLMAN, EDWARD, Plymouth 1623. ||JOHN, Dorchester,
was member of the ar. co. 1637 ; had sons, John and Thomas, by
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1637 and 1641, John Holww grad. a^ H. C 170Q. WILLIAM,
Cambridge 1636.
HOLMES, GEORGE, Roxbory, freeman 1689, d. 18 Jhfi. 1645.
J[OHN\ miaister of Duxbur j, was a student under Pi eaideat Cbaun-
cy in 1658, and succeeded Rev, Ralph Partridge, but wa^ thQ miib
ister there only a few years. JOHN, Plyniouth 1638. •NA-
THANIEL, Roxbury, aon of George Holmes, was b. in 1639, and
vas representative in 1689. OBADIAH^ Salem, was admitted
24 March, 1639, to the church, from which he was exoonoununica^
ed ; went to Rehobotb, became a Baptist ; removed to NevqK>it>. R.
I., and was the minister there in 1652, d. 1682, m, 76. Me had 8
children, and his descendants in 1790, were estimated at 500(1
His son Obadiah was a judge and preacher in New-Jersey., John,
another son, was a magistrate in Pniladelphia» One of Obadiah'^
sons was living in Newport in 1770 at the age of 95. Benedict, i.
Hist. Baptists, 371—375. RICHARD, Rowley 1643, wa« bom in
1610. ROBERT, Cambridge 1636, freeman 1641, had a wife
Jane, and sons, John, Josq)b, and Ephraim. A Robert Holmes d.
at Newbury, 18 Sept. 1673. WILLIAM, a major, of Plymoutk
colony 1638, d. in Boston 1649, without any &mily. HolmeSp i.
Annals, 578, where there are some interesting notes of him.
HOLT, NICHOLAS, Newbury 1635, removed to Andover, and
was one of the founders of the church there 1645, died in 16^„ s.
78. He had sons, Samuel, b, at Newbury, 6 Nov. 1641 ; Henry \
Nicholas ; James ; and John. He had two daughters b. at Newbu*
ry in 1636 and 1638. WILLIAM^ New-Haven 1643, had son^
John, b. 1645 ; Nathaniel, b. 1647 ; Eleazar, b. 1651 ; Thomas, h.
1653 ; Joseph, b. 1655 ; Benjamin, b. 1658.
HOLTON, ROBERT, slater, a member of the church in Boston,
was admitted freeman 1634. *WILLIAM> Northampton 1654,
was representative 1665 to 1667, 1669 to 1671, one jear fi«
Hadley.
HOLYOKE, •EDWARD, Lynn 1680, [Lewis! came from Tam-
worth, in the county of Stafford, and on the borders of Warwick-
shire; [Brazer, Sermon of Dr. E. A. Holyoke, 10] was admitted
freeman in 1638 ; re^H-esentative 1639 to 1643, and 1647 and 1648 ;
removed to Springfield, which he represented in 1650 and part of
1660. He d. 4 May, 1660, leaving a son Elizur, and a daughter,
who m. George Keysar. *ELIZUR, Springfield, son of the pr^
ceding, was admitted freeman in 1648, was a captain, and repre-
sentative in 1656, 1661, 1667, 1670, and 1673 to 1675, 7 years,
and d- 6 Feb. 1676. He m. 20 Nov. 1640, Mary, daughter of Hon.
William Pynchon. She d, 86 Oct. 1657, He had a son who was
chosen captain in Philip's wai: 1676, and died in Sept, following*
[Hubbard, 86.] . JOHN, Springfield, probably another son, grad. a|
H. C. 1662, was admitted freeman in 1677, representative in 1691.
Elizur Holyoke, of Boston, the representative in 1704, 1705, 1706|
and 1707, was probably father of Rev. Edward Holyoke, H. C.
1705, and president of the college, who was a native of Boston, an4
father of the venerable centennarian, Edward Augustus Holyoke,
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HOMWOOD. H0PKIN80W.
bom at MarblebQad, 1 Aug. 1728, graiL at H* C. 1746, and died aJt
Salem, 31 March, 1829.
HOMWOOD, or HONIWOOD, WILUAM, was of Cambridge
1641, had a wife Wipifired, and daughter Elizabeth. St. John Hof
neywood grad. at Y. C, in 1782.
HOOD, JOHN, Lynn 1650, Kittery 1652. RICHARD, Lynn
1650, came firom Lynn» England, and d, 12 Sept. 1695, having sons
Joseph and Benjamin*
HOOKE. FRANCIS, Kittery, waa a magistrate there 1688.
WILLIAM, a preacher at Taunton, and settled the minister of
New«Haven, in 1644, returned to England 1656, and became chap-
lain to Oliver Cromwell. He died, says Calamy, in March, 1677,
m. 77. Mather says, 21 March, 1677, Trumbull, 1667, and Sav-
age, 1668, *W1LLIAM, Salisbury, freeman 1640, mentioned by
Wintbrop [ii. Hist. N. £. 125] as a godly gentleman, was represen-
tative in 1643 and 1647. He d. in 1654, leaving a widow Eleanor.
HOOKER, THOMAS^ one of the first ministers of Cam-
bridge and Hartford, was born at Marfield, in Leicestershire, about
1586 ; was educated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, came, to
N. E. in company with Rev. John Cotton and Samuel Stone, and
arrived at Boston, 3 Sept 1633 ; was settled over the church at
Cambridge, 11 Oct* 1633, admitted freeman 14 May, 1634, went
to Connecticut in July, 1696, and settled at Hartford, where he d.
7 July, 1647, ib. 61, leaving a widow Susan, and several children.
Three of his daughters m. Rev. Thomas Shepherd, Rev. Roger
Newton, and Rev. John WiJison. Twenty-two persons of the name
of Hooker, ivost of whom his descendants^ had grad. at the N. £.
colleges in 1828. SAMUEL^ minister of Farmington, was son of
the preceding and grad. at H. C. 1653, waa ordained 1661, and d.
6 Not. 1697, iged a. 64. Rev. John Hooker, Y. C 1751, the min*
ister of Northampton, who died 6 Feb. 1777, hb. 48, was from this
(unily.
HOOPER, JOHN and ROBERT, were of Marblehead in 1674,
where the name continues to the present time,, having furnished many
enterprising men. Eleven of the name had grad. at H. C. in 1828.
WILLIAM, Reading, was admitted freeman 1648, d. 5 Dec. 1678,
HOPKINS, J&EDWARD, came to N. E. with Rev. John Da-
venport, and settled at Hartford 1638» was elected magistrate 1639,
and frequently governour between 1640 and 1654. He returned to
England, and d. in London, March, 1657, in his 58th year. Hia
widow, who was aunt of Gov. Yale, founder of Yale Coll., died 17
Dec. 1698. Savage, i. Winth. 230. Twenty-seven persons of tha
name of Hopkins had grad. at the N. E. Colleges in 182a JOHN,
Cambridge, was admitted freeman 1635. STEPHEN, Plymouth,
one of the first Pilgrims^ came over 1620; was an a/ssistant from
1633 to 1636, four years. THOMAS Providence 1641. aColL
Mass. Hist Soc. i. 4. WILLIAM, waa an assistant of Connecticut
9» 1642, WILUAM, Roxbury, d. 28 A.^\\, 1688.
HOPKINSON, MICHAEU Boston^ member of the church, free,
man 1640, dismissed to Rowley, and there d. 1657. John, who d.
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HORNE. HOPGH.
at Rowley, 29 May, 1704, and Jonathan, who d. 11 Feb. 1719, m.
76, were probably his sons.
HORNE, JOHN, froeman 1631, was of Salem in 1637, was a
carpenter by profession, and a deacon of the church 54 years ; d.
1685, SB. 62, leaving children, John, Symond, Joseph, Benjamin,
Elizabeth Gardner, Jehoadan Harvey, Mary Smith, and Ann Felton.
Felt, Annals, 279. This name has now become Orne, and has
furnished a number of enterprising and useful men. William
Home was of New-Hampshire in 1665, and had sons, John and
William, whose descendants remain.
HORSLEY, JOSEPH, Rowley, d. 1699. John Hosley grad. at
H. C. 1779.
HORTON, BARNABAS, was of South-Old, L. I. about 1640.
THOMAS, Springfield 1639. WILLIAM, Charlestown, d. 21
Jan. 1655. Six of the name had grad. at Yale, Harv., Union, and
N. J. coll. in 1828.
HOSFORD, WILLIAM, was admitted freeman 1634. Spelled
Horseford in colony records. Isaac Hosford grad. at D. C. 1826.
HOSIER, SAMUEL, came to N. E. in 1630, and settled in
Watertown ; was admitted freeman 1631.
HOSKINS, JOHN, Massachusetts, was admitted freeman 1631.
The name of Haskins, perhaps the same, exists in Massachusetts.
JOHN, was admitted freeman 1634. THOMAS, freeman 1635.
There were families of this name in Beverly, where Roger Hoskins
d. in 1694, se. 50.
HOSMER, JAMES, Concord, firecman 1637, came according to
tradition from Hockhurst, in the county of Kent, England, and d.
7 Feb. 1685. His wife in 1665. His sons were, James, who m.
Sarah White in 1658, had 4 children, and was killed in Sudbury
fight 1676 ; John, a petitioner for the grant of Chelmsford 1653 ;
Stephen, b. 1642, m. Abigail Wood 1667. Shattuck, MS Hist.
Concord. THOMAS, came with his brother James to N. E. and
settled at Cambridge as early as 1632, and was admitted freeman
1635. Rev. Stephen Hosmer, H. C. 1699, was of East-Haddam,
Conn, and d. 16 June, 1749. Hon. Titus Hosmer and Hon. Ste-
phen Titus Hosmer grad at Y C. 1757 and 1782.
HOUCHIN, ||*JEREMY, a tanner of Boston, was admitted
fireeman 1640, member of ar. co. 1641, was representative £>r Hing-
ham from 1651 to 1659, excepting 1656 ; for Salisbury in 1663.
He was admitted a member of Dorchester church in 1639. His
sons, Jeremy and John, were born in Boston in 1652 and 1655.
His name is spelled Howchenes in the colony records.
HOUGH, ♦{ATHERTON, son, it is supposed, of Atherton
Hough, mayor of Boston, in Lincolnshire, England, 1628, [See
Thompson's Hist, of Boston, England] came to N. E. in 1633, with
Rev. John Cotton, and settled at Boston. He was chosen assistant
1635, and representative in 1637, d. 11 Sept. 1650. His daughter
Elizabeth d. 14 Oct. 1643. SAMUEL, the second minister of
Reading, probably son of the preceding, was educated at H. C,
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HOUGHTON, HOWELL.
although he did not graduate ; succeeded Rev. Hebry Green, and
d. at Boston, 30 March, 1662. Savage, ii. Winthrop. Index.
HOUGHTON, HENRY. (See Haughton.) ♦JOHN, Water-
town, thence to Lancaster as early as 1652, and was representative
1690, and perhaps for 13 years afterwards. *RALPH, Lancaster,
freeman 1668, was town clerk, and the 2d representative of that town
in 1673, and again elected in 1689. He was cousin to the preced-
ing. Willard, Hist. Lancaster.
HOULDEN, RANDALL. (See Holden.)
HOULDER, NATHANIEL, Dorchester, was member of the
church 1636. Dr. Harris.
HOUSE, JOHN, Cambridge, d. 22 AprU, 1644. SAMUEL, a
ship-carpenter, of Scituate 1^3, removed to Cambridge. 2 Coll.
Mass. Hist. Soc. x. Index.
HOVEY, DANIEL, Ipswich 1637, d. 29 April, 1695. John
Hovey is mentioned in the Revolution in N. E. Justified, 39. Jo-
seph Hovey was of Hadley in 1677.
HOWARD, JOHN, Dedham 1636. JOHN, Bridgewater. (See
Ha WARD.) IINATHANIEL, member of the ar. co. 1641, freeman
1643, belonged to Dorchester. Samuel Howard was of Boston in
1658. William Howard was a member of the ar. co. in 1661.
ROBERT, Lynn 1650, was admitted freeman 1652, and had a son
Edward. Lewis.
HOWE, ABRAHAM, Roxbury, freeman 1638, died 20 Nov.
1683. His sons were, Abraham, who died 1684 ; Isaac, b. 1639 ;
Israel, b. 1644. Twenty-two persons of the name of Howe had
grad. at the N. E. colleges in 1826. ||*DANIEL, Lynn, the first
lieutenant of the ar. co. 1637, was admitted freeman 1634, repre-
sentative 1636 and 1637, removed to South-Hampton, L. I. of which
he was a grantee and one of the first settlers. Mr. Lewis says he
had a son Edward, who was master of a vessel, and was wrecked in
1676, as mentioned by Hubbard, 644. Whitman [Sketch of ar. co.
147] spells the name Hough. ♦EDWARD, Lynn 1630, [Lewis]
was admitted freeman 1636, was representative at 7 courts in 1638,
1642, and 1643 ; died in April, 1639. ♦EDWARD, Watertown,
freeman 1634, was a ruling elder of the church, and representative
in 1635 ; d. in 1644. JAMES, freeman 1637, was of Ipswich
1648, and d. in May, 1702, ae. 104. Sewall, MS. He gave testi-
mony relating to the line between Ipswich and Rowley a short time
before he died. JEREMIAH, Lynn 1647. Lewis. JOHN, Wa-
tertown, freeman 1640, was son of John Howe, of Hodinhull, War-
wickshire, said to be related to Lord Charles Howe, earl of Lancas-
ter in 1641. Worcester Magazine. JOHN, Sudbury, freeman
1640, had sons, John, b. 1640 ; Samuel, b. 1642, and removed to
Marlborough, and d. 10 July, 1678. He might be the John Howe
killed by the Indians, 20 April, 1675. JOSEPH, Lynn 1640, died
a. 1651. Lewis. WILLIAM, Dorchester 1641, probably went to
Chelmsford a. 1656.
HOWELL, EDWARD, Lynn, freeman 1638, owned 500 acres at
Lynn, was one of the grantees named in the Indian deed of South-
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Hampton, L. L 1640« Twelve of thd naine had grad. in N. £..
N. Y., and N. J. in 1626. |JOHN, was elected a magistrate of
Connecticut in 1647. John Howell grad. at ¥. C« 1731.
HOWEN, ROBERT) Boston, freeman 1643^ hod a son Israel,
b. in 1643.
HOWES, ABEL, perhaps Hewes or Httse, (See Hvse) was ad»
mitted freeman in 1642. One of the name of Howes grad. at
Williams College in 1809.
ROWLAND, JOHN, one of the first pilgrims. Was elected an
assistant of Plymouth colony from 1638 to 1635, 3 years, d. 83
Feb. 1673, ae. about 80, being the " last of those in the town Of Plym*
outh who came in the May^Flower 1620." Henry Howland was
one of the proprietors of Bridgewater in 1645, and might be a son.
Rev. John Howland, H. C. 1741, of Carver, who d. 4 Nov. 1804,
se. 84, was a descendant.
HOWLETT, ♦THOMAS, was b. 1599, and was one of the first
settlers of Ipswich, fireeman 1634, representative 1635, d. 22 Dec.
1667. William Howlett grad. at H. C. 1727.
HOWMAN, JOHN, requested to be made fi*eeman, 19 06i
1630.
HOYT, JOHN, one of the first settlers of Salisbury 1640.
SIMON, Massachusetts, was admitted freeman, 18 May, 1631.
Eight had in 1828 received honours at the N. E. colleges.
HUBBARD, BENJAMIN, Charlestown, fireeman 1^4, had sons,
Benjamin, Thomas, and James. Fifly-three persons of the name
of Hubbard, 11 of them ministers, had grad. at the N. E. colleges
in 1826. GEORGE, a deputy at the first general assembly of
Conn. 1639, was of Guilford 1650. JAMES, Lynn 1637, perhaps
d. at Watertown 1638, leaving a son Thomas b. that year. JO-
SEPH, Newbury 1637. JOHN, Hadley 1660. RICHARD, Ips-
wich, son of William Hubbard, grad. at H. C. 1653, was represent*
ative in 1660, d. 3 May, 1681. He wrote his name Hubberd, RO*
BERT, Boston 1652, had sons Daniel and John b. befi>re 1657.
♦WILLIAM, came to N. E. as early as 1630, when he requested
to be made free, and was probably admitted in 1638, unless the
William Hubbard of Lynn was a different person. He settled in
Ipswich, which he represented in 1638, six years, until 1646. He
removed to Boston and died a. 1670, leaving sons, William, Rich-
ard, and Nathaniel. WILLIAM^ minister of Ipswich, and the
historian of New-England, was son of the preceding, and was b. in
England 1621 , grad. at H. C. 1642, ordained probably as a colleague,
and d. 14 Sept. 1704, ae. 83. He m. Margaret, daughter of Rev.
Nathaniel Rogers. THOMAS, Billerica 1656, d. Nov. 1663.
HUCKIN, IITHOMAS, member of the ar. co. 1637, its ensign
1639. James Huckins was of Durham, N. H., and a constable in
1683.
HUDSON, FRANCIS, Boston 1640, was son of William Hud-
son, of Chatham, in Kent, and d. 3 Nov. 1700, as. 82. Judge Sew-
all says that he was one of the first who set foot on the peninsnla of
Boston. His son Samuel was b. 1650. JAMES, Boston 1642, had
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»ms, James, bom 1646 ; John, born 1654. JOHN, Lynn 1637.
Winthrop, ii. Hist. N. E. 48. NICHOLAS, Massachusetts, was
admitted freeman 1637. RALPH, Cambridge 1635, thence to
Boston, freeman 1636. THOMAS, Lynn 1637, had a son Jonar
than. WILLIAM, Lynn, freeman 1631 ; afterwards of Boston.
Snow, Hist. Boston, 108. Shaw, Hist. Boston, 67. || WILLIAM,
was born a. 1619, freeman 1640, member of the ar. co. 1640 ; cap*
tain 1661.
HUET, EPHRAIM, Windsor. (See Hewbtt.) Johnson
spells this name as above ; but Trumbull writes it Hewett.
HUGGINS, JOHN, Hampton, d. 1670, leaving son John, and
perhaps James.
HUGHES, JOSHUA, Roxbury. (See Hewes.) The name of
Hughes has furnished several graduates at N. J. College, and one
at Harvard.
HULBERT, WILLIAM, freeman 1632, may have been one of
the proprietors of Northampton as early as 1658.
HULL, EDWARD, Braintree 1650. Six persons of the name
of Hull had grad. at Y. C. in 1828, of whom was General William
Hull, governour of Michigan. ♦JGEORGE, Dorchester, freeman
1633, was representative at the first general court, 14 May, 1634 ;
removed to Connecticut, and was elected an assistant in 1637.
There was a George Hull of Beverly in 1674. ISAAC, was a
minister of the first Baptist church before 1679. ||JOHN, Boston,
freeman 1632, was member of the ar. co. 1638 ; its. captain 1671.
Ill* JOHN, Boston, grandson of Robert Hull, was probably admitted
freeman 1649, member of the ar. co. 1660 ; its captain 1678,
treasurer of Massachusetts 1676, assistant from 1680 to 1683. He
d. 29 Sept. 1683, leaving an only child, Hannah, b. 14 Feb. 1658,
who m. Judge Samuel Sewall. He lefl a large estate. He or the
preceding was representative for Wenham in 1668 ; for Westfield
from 1671 to 1674, and for Salisbury 1679. There was a John
Hull who died at Newbury, 1 Feb. 1670. ♦JOSEPH, Hingham,
freeman 1635, was representative at two courts in 1638 and 1639.
Mr. Savage [ii. Winthrop, 175] supposes that the town of Hull, in
Massachusetts, was *' so called in honour of Joseph Hull, of Hing-
iiam." If so, it is believed to be a solitary instance of the name
of an individual, however distinguished, being given to a town at
so early a period. May not this small maritime town derive its
name from a seaport, in Yorkshire, England, whence some of the
early settlers embarked for the shores of New-England ? REUBEN,
a merchant of Portsmouth, m. Mary Farmside, and had sons, Jo*
seph, b. 1677 ; Reuben, b. 1684, and several daughters. RICH-
ARD, Massachusetts, freeman 1634. ROBERT, Boston, black-
smith, was admitted freeman 1637, and d. 28 July, 1663,86. 73.
S. Sewall, MS Diary makes him the grand-father of John Hull, the
assistant. [ ,] a minister, whose name of baptism has not
been ascertained, preached some time at Weymouth ; appears to
have at Bass River, [Beverly] and at the Isles of Shoals. He came
to N. E. as early as 1635. Savage, i. Winthrop, 162.
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HULLING, , Massachusetts, was admitted freeman
1639.
HUMFREY, (f JOHN, who was chosen deputy-^overnour at the
second meeting of the Mass. company in England, came to N. E.
1632, and was elected an assistant from 1632 to 1641. He settled
in Lynn 1634 [Lewis] ; was admitted member of the church in
8alem, 16 Jan. 1638 [Felt], and returned to England 26 Oct. 1641.
[Winthrop, ii. Hist. N. E. 46.] He m. Lady Susan, daughter of the
Earl of Lincoln, and she, with their children, came to N. E. His
children were, John, who was probably member of the ar. co. 1641 ;
Joseph ; Theophilus ; Ann ; Dorcas, and Sarah, who were all dead
in 1681, excepting Ann, who having been the widow of William
Palmes, m. Rev. John Miles, of Swauzey. Hutchinson, i. Hist.
Mass. 21. Felt. Lewis.
HUMPHREY, JAMES, an elder of the church in Dorchester,
was admitted freeman 1645, and d. 12 May, 1686, s. 78. Eleven
persons of the name of Humphrey and Humphreys had grad. in
N. E. in 1826. JONAS, Dorchester, was admitted to the church
1639, freeman 1640. Jonas, perhaps his son, was admitted free-
man 1654, and had a son Jonas b. in 1661.
HUNKING, JOHN, Portsmouth 1650, had children, John, born
2 March, 1651, died in England; Hercules, b. 11 July, 1656;
John, [?] b. 6 April, 1660 ; Peter, b. 20 March, 1663 ; William, b.
6 Jan. 1667, and Mark, b. 17 May, 1670, and was a counsellor of
N. H. in 1710.
HUNKINGS, WILLIAM, Providence 1641.
HUNN, GEORGE, a tanner, of Boston, was admitted freeman \
in 1637, and d. in June, 1640. Nathaniel, probably his son, was
of Boston, and a member of the ar. co. 1662.
HUNT, EDMUND, Cambridge 1634, was an early settler <^
Duxbury, and one of the proprietors of Bridgewater 1645. Forty-
one persons of this name had been educated at the colleges in N.
E. and N. J. in 1826. ENOCH, Weymouth 1640. ♦EPHRAIM,
Weymouth 1655, freeman 1671, representative 1689 to 1691, and
a captain of the militia. ♦JONATHAN, was representative of
Northampton in 1691. WILLIAM, Concord 1641, died at Marl-
borough in Oct. 1667, leaving sons, Samuel, freeman 1654 ; Nehe-
miah ; Isaac, and William. Shattuck. , a minister, who
had been settled in Wroxall, in Warwickshire, came to N. £. ac*
cording to Calamy, but at what time is uncertain.
HUNTER, ROBERT, Rowley, was admitted freeman 1640.
Sixteen of this name are on the catalogues of the N. E. colleges.
HUNTING, JOHN, Dedham, freeman 1638, was an elder of the
church, and one of its founders in 1638. His sons^ Samuel and
Nathaniel, were b. in 1640 and^ 1643. Rev. Nathaniel Hunting,
H. C. 1693, who was ordained in Sept. 1699, at East-Hampton, L.
I. and d. in 1753, was his grandson. Six others of the name had
grad. at Harvard and Yale in 1826.
HUNTINGTON, , was one of the first settiers of Say-
brook in 1637, from thence went to Norwich, where the family
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HUNTINGTON. HUTCHINSON.
hare ever enjoyed high distinction. Thirty-four of the name have
grad. at Yale College, besides 10 at the other N. E. colleges, sever-
al of whom have been much distinguished in publick life. WIL-
UAM, Salisbury 1661.
HUNTLEY, JOHN, Boston 1652, had sons Moses and Aaron.
HURD, ||JOHN, Boston, tailor, freeman and member of the ar.
CO. 1640, had sons, Benjamin and Samuel, and d. 23 Sept. 1600.
Isaac Hurd was admitted freeman in 1670*
HURLBERT, WILLIAM, Windsor 1640.
HUSE, ABEL, was b. a. 1602, came from London, and settled
at Newbury, a. 1639 ; d. 29 March, 1690. He had 12 children,
all by his 3d wife, and born afler he was 60 years old. The sons
were, Abel, Thomas, William, John, and Ebenezer. Coffin. Ste-
phen, the son of Abel Huse, was b. 16 Nov. 1702, and grad. at H.
C. 1726. Jonathan and Nathaniel Huse, clergymen, grad. at D.
C. in 1788 and 1802.
HUSSEY, ♦{CHRISTOPHER, one of the first setUers of Ncw^
bury and Hampton, was born at Darking, in Surry, in England,
[Lewis] was admitted fireeman 1634, was at Hampton 1639, and
the representative in 1658, 1659, and 1660 ; was a provincial coun-
seller of New-Hampshire, and d. 1685. He m. Theodate, daugh-
ter of Rev. Stephen Bachelor, and left two sons, Stephen and John,
and several daughters. Stephen lived in Nantucket, and there d.
in 1718, ». 88. John became a preacher to the Quakers, and liv-
ed in Newcastle, Delaware. *JOSEPH, a captain of Hampton,
and the representative in 1672.
HUTCHINS, GEORGE, Cambridge, freeman 1638, had a son
Luke, b. 6 April, 1644. JOHN, Newbury 1640, had sons, Joseph,
b. 15 Nov. 1640, and Benjamin, b. 15 May, 1641. He went to
Haverhill as early as 1657. RICHARD, Massachusetts, admitted
freeman 18 May, 1631.
HUTCHINSON, EDWARD, son of Richard, admitted freeman
4 March, 1634, was of Boston, and removed to Rhode-Island, as
early as 1638, but returned to Massachusetts. Benedict. Twenty-
two of the name had grad. at the N. E. colleges in 1826. ||*ED-
WARD, Boston, son of William and the famous Ann Hutchinson,
was admitted freeman 3 Sept 1634, member of the ar. co. 1638,
captain in 1657, representative in 1658, went in 1675 on an expe^-
dition to the Nipmug country, and was wounded in an engagement
with the Indians, 4 or 5 miles from Brookfield, on 2d August,
and d. of his wounds at Marlborough, 19 August, 1675, s. 67. He
had sons, Elisha ; Edward, b. 1651 ; Benjamin, b. 1656, and perhaps
others. To his honour, he entered his dissent against the sanguin-
ary law in 1658, for punishing the quakers with death on their r^
turn to the colony after banishment. j:||*ELISHA, Boston, son of
the preceding, was admitted freeman 1668 ; member of the ar. co.
1660, captain 1676, representative 1680 to 1683, assistant 1684,
1685, and 1686, and one of the first council under the charter of
WUIiam and Mary 1692. He d. 10 Dec. 1717, ». 77. His son,
the Hon. Thomas Hutchinson, b. 30 Jan. 1674, d. 3 Dec. 1739, m.
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65, was father of Govemour Thomas Hutchinson, the historian of
Massachusetts, who was b. 9 Sept. 1711, grad. at H. C. 1727, and
d. in England, S June, 1780, in his 69th year. Three of the gov-
ernours sons, Thomas, Elisha, and William Sanford grad. at H. C.
1758, 1762, and 1770. FRANCIS, Boston, son ofWilliam Hutch-
inson, a member of the church, was admitted freeman 1635, and d.
it is presumed, 17 Nov. 1661. GEORGE, is named by Prince
[ii. Annals, 69] as a member of the church of Charlestown in 1632.
II JOHN, was member of the ar. co. 1645. RALPH, Northampton
1660. RICHARD, Boston, freeman 1635, was one of the disarm-
ed in 1637, returned to England, and was a member of the corpor-
ation for propagating the gospel among the Indians, 1649. Hutch-
inson, i. Hist. Mass. 154. RICHARD, Salem 1637. Felt. SAM-
UEL, Lynn 1637. Lewis. THOMAS, Boston 1632, [Prince, ii.
Annals, 69] Lynn 1637. Lewis. ♦WILLIAM, came to N. E.
1634, and settled at Boston which he represented in 1635, having
been admitted fVeeman the same year. He went to Rhode-Island,
and d. a. 1642. His widow, Ann, the celebrated female theologian,
removed to the Dutch country, and in 1643, she, with all her femily,
excepting one daughter, being 16 persons, was killed by the Indians.
Savage, ii. Winthrop, Index. Hutchinson, i. Hist. Mass. 55—^7,
66, 70—74.
HYLAND, THOMAS, Scituate 1637
HYDE, EDMUND, Massachusetts, freeman 1649. Thirteen of
the name of Hyde have grad. at the N. E. colleges. GEORGE,
Boston 1642, had a son Timothy b. in 1644. JONATHAN, Cam-
bridge 1650, that part now Newton, was admitted freeman 1663,
and d. 5 Oct. 1711. He had sons, Jonathan, b. 1651 ; Samuel, b.
1652 ; Joshua, b. 1654 ; John, b. 1656 ; Abraham, b. 1658 ; Dan-
iel, b. 1661 ; William, b. 1662 ; Eleazar, b. 1664. His name was
frequently written and pronounced Hides. SAMUEL, Cambridge
Village, now Newton, 1647, was a deacon of the church, and d. 12
Sept. 1689. His wife was Temperance. A daughter Sarah was b.
1644.
IBROOK, RICHARD, Hingham 1635. Lincoln, Hist. Hing-
ham, 43.
ILSLEY, JOHN, Salisbury, was admitted freeman 1639. His
name is spelled Ellsley in the colony records. WILLIAM, New-
bury, was born a. 1608, came from Newbury, England, and d. in
1681. He had sons, John, b. 1641 ; William, b. 1647 ; Joseph, b.
1649 ; Isaac, b. 1652.
INCE, JONATHAN, distinguished as a mathematician, and
perhaps the surveyor mentioned by Belknap, in his Hist. N. H. p.
87, grad. at H. C. 1650, and was lost at sea with John Davis and
Nathaniel Pelham.
INES, MATTHIAS, was admitted freeman 1646. Mr. Savage,
Among the disarmed men in 1637 [i. Winthrop, 248] gives the
name of Mathewe lyans.
INGALLS, EDMUND, came from Lincolnshire, England, and
settled at Lynn in 1629 ; d. in 1648, having a wife Ann, and nine
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children : Robert ; Elizabeth ; Faith, who m. Andrew Allen ; John,
who lived at Lynn and Ipswich ; Sarah ; Henry, b. 1637, admitted
freeman 1673, lived in Andover, and d. there in 1719, ». 92, whose
descendant, Captain Henry Ingalls, d. in 1803, s. 84 ; Samuel ;
Mary, and Joseph. His descendants have been numerous and re-
spectable. Among them, may be named. Rev. Calvin Ingalls, Rev.
Jedidiah Ingalls, Charles Ingalls, esq., and William Ingalls, M. D.
A. Lewis and A. Abbot, MS letters. FRANCIS, brother of the
preceding, b. a. 1601, was a tanner, and settled in Lynn in 1629.
His tannery is said to have been the first in Massachusetts. Lewis.
ROBERT, Lynn, son of Edmund, was bom in England, and was
buried 3 Jan. 1698. His wife, Sarah, d. 8 April, 1606. His child-
ren were Robert, Sarah, and Nathaniel. *SAMUEL, Ipswich
1665, freeman 1681, was representative 1690.
INGERFIELD, GEORGE, was a lieutenant at Kittery in 1668.
INGERSOLL, JOHN, Northampton 1658, perhaps of Westiield
in 1668. Thirteen of the name of Ingersoll had grad. at the N. E.
colleges in 1826. RICHARD, Salem 1637, d. a. 1644, leaving
sons, George, of Gloucester, and a selectman in 1652 ; and Nathan-
iel, and sons-in-law, Richard Pettingell, and William Haines.
There was a John Ingersoll, a mariner of Salem in 1657, and free-
man 1668. George and John Ingersoll were of Casco in 1665.
INGERSON, JOHN, Salem 1665. 2 Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. viii.
106.
INGHAM, THOMAS, Scituate 1657. 2 Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. iv.
INGLISH, WILLIAM, Boston 1652.
INGRAHAM, EDWARD, Salem 1638. Four of the name had
grad. at the N. E. colleges in 1828. JOHN, Hadley 1666, was
admitted freeman 1683. WILLIAM, Boston 1653, had sons, Wil-
liam, b. 1656, and Edward, b. 1657. Francis Ingraham d. in Bos-
ton in 1699.
INGOLDSBY, JOHN, Boston, admitted freeman 1642, had
sons, John and Ebenezer, b. in 1649 and 1650.
IRELAND, PHILIP, Ipswich, whose wife, Grace, d. 13 May,
IRESON, EDMUND, Lynn 1650, d. Dec. 1675, m. 74. He had
a son Benjamin, whose descendants remain. Lewis. RICHARD,
Lynn 1643. Judge Sewall records the death of a Capt. Ireson, 3
Feb. 1691, who was between 86 and 90 years of age.
ISAACS, ♦JOSEPH, Cambridge 1636, freeman 1637, was rep-
resentative in 1638. Isaac, Ralph, Benjamin, and Ralph, grad. at
Y. C. in 1750, '61, '81, and '84.
ISABELL, ROBERT, Salem 1637. Felt.
ISLIN, THOMAS, Sudbury, freeman 1640, d. 21 Feb. 1664.
IVES, MILES, Watertown 1639. Michael Ives, was of Boston
in 1651. Eleven of the name had grad. at Y. C. 1828.
IVORY, THOMAS, Lynn 1640, d. 1664. Lewis. THOMAS,
son of the preceding, was of Lynn 1642, and d. 18 July, 1690.
WILLIAM, a carpenter^ lived at Lynn, and other places, and d. at
Boston, 3 Oct. 1652.
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JACKLING. JACKflON.
JACKLING, EDMUND, a glazier of Boston, was a member oi
the church and admitted freeman 1635. He had a son Samuel, b.
in 1640.
JACKMAN, JAMES, was bom a. 1618, and came from Exeter,
in England, and settled at Newbury as early as 1648; d. 30 Dec.
1694. His sons were, James, b. 22 June, 1654 ; Richard, b. 1659,
and several daughters. His name is erroneously Jackson in 2 Coll.
Mass. Hist. Soc. viii. 106.
JACKSON, ABRAHAM, the ancestor of the Plymouth Jaeksons,
came over in the second ship at the age of 13, with secretary Mor-
ton ; was his apprentice, and m. Remember, his daughter, 18 Nov.
1657. His sons were Eleazer, Abraham, John, and Nathaniel. The
name of Jackson has prevailed in all the N. E. states, and 24 had
grad. at the different colleges in 1828, fifteen having received de-
grees at H. C. IIEDMUND, Boston, freeman 1636, member of the
ar. CO. 1646, was a shoemaker and constable. His sons by three
wives, wer«, John, b. 20 Oct. 1638 ; Thomas, b. 1 March, 1640 ;
Samuel, b. 24 June, 1642; Jeremiah, b. July, 1645; Isaac, b. 22
Nov. 1651 ; Edmund, b. 30 Oct. 1654. ♦EDWARD, bom in 1602,
eame from the parish of White-Chapel in London, a. 1640, was ad-
mitted freeman 1645, purchased a jfarm of Govemour Bradstreet, of
500 acres at Cambridge, for <£140, recently possessed by Jonathan
Hunnewell esq. and there settled. He was ele(5ted representative
in 1647, and continued in that office 16 years and was much engag-
ed in publick life. Johnson [Hist. N. E. 110] mentions him among
the worthy men of the colony. He belonged to Newton after -the
separation of that town from Cambridge, and there d. 17 July, 1681,
s. 79, leaving an estate of Jf2477. 19, of which he gave 400 acres
of land at Billerica, some books and manuscripts, and all the debts
due to him in England to Harvard College. His children by his
1st wife were. Hannah, who m. John Ward, of Newton ; (which
see) Francis, who d. 5 Oct. 1646, and Rebecca, who m. Thomas
Prentiss of Newton. His last wife, whom he m. 14 March, 1649,
was Elizabeth, widow of John Oliver, and daughter of John New-
gate, of Boston. His children were, 1. Sarah, b. 5 Jan. 1650, m.
Rev. Nehemiah^Hobart, of Newton, 21 March, 1678, d. 23 Feb.
1712 ; 2. Edward, b. 15 Dec. 1652, a deacon of the church at
Newton, and representative 1702, d. 30 Sept. 1727, ae. 75, having
had Edward, Abigail, Samuel, Elizabeth, and Hannah ; 3. Jona-
than, who probably m. and had issue ; 4. Sebas, who m. Sarah Bsp
ker 1671, d. 6 Nov. 1690, having had Edward, b. 1672; John;
John, 2d ; Mary ; Jonathan ; Sarah ; Elizabeth ; Joseph, born 6
March, 1691 ; 5. Lydia, b. 1656, m. Joseph Fuller 1680, d. 12
January, 1726 ; 6. Elizabeth, b. 28 April, 1658, m. John Prentiss
and a Bond, and d. 25 Jan. 1741 ; 7. Hannah, who m. Nathaniel
Wilson, and d. 26 Sept. 1690; 8. Ruth, b. 16 Jan. 1664, d. 1692
unmarried. Joseph, above, the youngest son of Sebas, m. Patience
Hyde, 28 Nov. 1717, and was grwidfather of Timothy Jackson,
esq., (the only son of Timothy, whod. 1774) who represented New-
ton in the general court 15 years in succession, from 1797, and
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wfaod. 22 Nov. 1814, e. 58. The oldest son of the last named
was one of the representatives of Boston in 1819 and 1820, bnt
now resides on the ancient estate at Newton. Foar other sons are
inhabitants of Boston. Two of the sons, viz. William, of Newton,
and Francis, of Boston, are representatives in the general court the
present year. QEORGE, a surgeon of Marblehead, accompained
the expedition to Canada 1690 in that capacity ; purchased a farm
in Scituate Aug. 1702. Samuel and Edmund, of Abington, 1716,
were probably his sons. JOHN, Salem, had 50 acres of land al-
lotted him in 1636. His house was burnt same year. He was
member of the church 1648, and d. a. 1656. His son John m. in
1659, and his grandson, John, was b. 1660. He may be the
" godly man" mentioned in ii. Winthrop, 19. JOHN, Cambridge
VUlage, [Newton] brother of Edward, of Cambridge, was admitted
freeman 1641, was deacon of the church, and d. 30 Jan. 1674.
His sons were, John, who d. 18 Oct. 1675, e. 36 ; Edward, b.
1650 ; Abraham, b. 1655, d. 1739, leaving an only son John,
whose only son John left an only son Thomas ; Joshua, b. 1659,
and 6 daughters. JOHN, Boston, freeman 1643, was a carpenter,
and d. a. 1673. His wife was Martha, and his son John was b. 26
June, 1643. JOHN and RICHARD, were of Portemouth, a. 1650,
where, in 1730, there were 9 ratable persons of the name. MAR-
CUS, Charlestown 1645. NICHOLAS, Rowley 1650, d. 1698,
leaving three sons, Samuel, b. 1649 ; Jonathan, b. 1650 ; Caleb, b.
1652. The two last lived in Rowley. Jonathan had sons, Jona^
than, Joshua, Daniel, and 3 daughters. Caleb, had a son Caleb,
b. in 1687, and one daughter. *RICHARD, Cambridge 1636,
representative 1637, 1638, 1641, 1648, 1653, 1661, d. 22 June,
1672, 8B. a. 90, leaving no children. He m. the widow of Rich-
ard Brown, of Watertown, 1662. ROBERT, Hempstead, L. I.
1665. Wood, Hist. Long-Island. SAMUEL, Scituate 1633, m.
Esther Sillis, Nov. 1639, made free in 1644, d. in 1682, ». 72.
He had an only son Jonathan, b. 1647, d. 1725, whose only son
Jonathan, b. 1685, had an only son Jonathan, b. 1633, whose two
sons. Ward Jackson and Samuel Jackson, are of Boston and Scituate.
WILLIAM, Rowley, one of the first settlers, d. 5 May, 1687, leaving
daughters, Mary and Deborah, 1640 and 1640, and no male issue.
JACOB, *NICHOLAS, came from Hingham, England, in 1633,
resided a short time at Watertown, was admitted freeman 1636,
went to Hingham, which he represented in 1648 and 1649, and d.
5 Jan. 1657. Lincoln, Hist. Hingham, 22. RICHARD, Ipswich,
freeman 1635, d. 1676, leaving an estate of ;^1067. 2. 3. He, or
his son Richard, m. a daughter of Samuel Appleton. Samuel Ja-
cob, of Newbury, d. 16 July, 1672.
JAFFREY, GEORGE, was b. a. 1637, lived sometime at New-
bury, where he m. Elizabeth Walker, 7 Dec. 1665 ; went to Great
Idand, [New-Castle, N. H.] and was speaker of the N. H. assem-
Uy. His son George, b. a. 1683, grad. at H. C. 1702, was appoint-
ed a mandamus counsellor in 1716^ and d. 8 May, 1749, s. 66.
George Jaffirey, son of the last, grad. at H. C. 1736, was a counaei-
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lor of N. H. 1766, and d. 25 Dec. 1801, e. 85. Descendants of
this family remain at Pcnrtsmouth.
JAMES, EDWARD, requested to be made freeman 19 Oct
1630. Twelve of the name had, in 1828, received the honours of
the N. E. and N. J. colleges. ERASMUS, Marblehead 1648.
FRANCIS, Hingham 1638. Lincoln, Hist. Hingham, 46.
JAMES, GAWDY, Massachusetts, was admitted freeman 1642.
HUGH,>.Pascataqua 1631. Adams, Annals Portsmouth. JOHN,
minister of Derby, Conn, prior to 1697, was educated, according to
Mather, at. Harvard College. It is not improbable that he was son
of Rev. Thomas James of Charlestown. PHILIP, Hingham 1638.
Lincoln, Hist. Hingham, 46. THOMAS, Dedham 1641, had a son
John born that year. A Thomas James was one of the founders of
the first Baptist church in Rhode-Island and a Thomas James died
at Lancaster, 13 March, 1660. THOMAS, the first minister of
the church in Charlestown, formed in Nov. 1632, was a native of
Lincolnshire, England, arrived in this country, 5 June, 1632, was
admitted fieeman 1632, ordained 2 Nov 1632 ; went as a missiona-
ry to Virginia with Messrs. Knowles and Thompson 1643 ; removed
to New-Haven, and afterwards returned to England, and was in the
ministry at Needham until 1678, being then about 86 years of age.
He was buried at Needham. Hubbard, Hist. N. E. 191. Calamy,
ii. Account, Index. Prince ii. Annals, 77. THOMAS, the first
minister of East-Hampton, L. I. was probably son of the preceding,
and alluded to by Johnson, when speaking of the departure of Mr.
James of Charlestown, as follows :
"Thy son young student may rich blessing be ;
"Thy loss repayre ;"
unless the " young student" was John James, son of the Charles-
town minister, and b. at Charlestown in 1632, and perhaps the min-
ister of Derby. The East-Hampton minister was settled, according
to Mr. Wood, in 1650 and d. in 1696, [Hist. Sketch, 32, 40—42]
leaving, it is inferred, no posterity. If he was the son of Rev.
Thomas James, Mr. Savage [i. Winthrop, 94] mistakes in giving
to the father the station at L. I., occupied by the son in 1665.
WILLIAM, was among those requesting to be made freemen 19
Oct. 1630, and appears to have lived in Salem in 1639, and may
have removed to the county of Middlesex.
JAMESON, ROBERT, Watertown 1643. Coffin. Thomas,
counsellor at law, Thomas, a clergyman, and John Jameson grad. at
D. C. in 1797, 1818, and 1821.
JANES, JOSEPH, and WILLIAM, were of Northampton in
1658.
JAaUES, HENRY, a carpenter of Newbury 1640, d. 24 Feb.
1687, ae. 67. His children were, Henry, born 1649, went to Wood-
bridge, N. J. ; Daniel; Mary, who m. Richard Brown; Hannah,
wife of Ephraim Plumer ; Sarah, wife of John Hale ; Ruth, Abigail.
Stephen, Richard, and Abiel Jaques grad. at H. C. in 1707, 1720,
and 1807.
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JAQUITH, ABRAHAM, Charlestowii 1644, was admitted free*
man in 1655. His mn Abraham was b. 1644. This iiame issbiHe*
times spelted as the preceding.
JARRATT, JOHN, Massachasetts, freeman 1640; d. 1648.
JARVIS, JOHN, was a merchant, and d. at Boston, 34 Sept.
1656. S6ven of the name had grad. at Harv. and Yale in 1838; of
#hom at Y. C. Were Rev. Abraham Jarvis, D. D. 1761, and Ret.
8amuel Farmar Jarvis, D. D. in 1805.
JEFFREY, THOMAS, Massachusetts, was admitted freemdn
1634. William, Weymoath, whose name is frequently spelled
Jeffries, was admitted freemati 18 May, 1631, having come to N.
E. several years befbr^ the artital of Governour Winthrop. Satage,
i. Winthrop, 44, 138.
JBFTS, HENRY, Mras one of the firtt settlers of Billeticiii and
tf. there 34 May, 1700^ se. 94. His d^sc^tidants are in Bostod add
various pai-td of Massachusetts.
JELLETT, JONATHAN, MasiadHusetts, freeman 1635.
JEMPSON, JAMES, Boston, had a son James, b. ih 1651.
JENKINS, EDWARD, Scituate 1647. S^veh of the dame had
grad. in 1828 at the N. E. and N. J. colleges. JOEL, Braintre^
1646, freeman 1646, had a son Thebphilus, born in 1642. REY-
IfOLD, Kittery 1652, perhaps the same who removed froin I>or^
Chester to Cape Porpus in 16d2.
JENKS, JOSEt>H, Lynn 1645, came from Hammersmith, En-
gland, was a blacksmith, and lived at the iron works. He.d. March^
1683. He was a very ingenious man, and his descendants through-
out N. E. have beetf respectable. He had 3 sons, Joseph ; Johti,
who d. 1698, aiid Samuel. Joseph removed tb Pawtucket, R. I.
where he built the first house erected there. His sons were, Joseph,
h. at Pawtucket 1656, governour of R. I. 5 years from 1727, and d.
15 June, 1740, «. 84 ; William, a judge, who d. 1765, ©. 91 j
Nathaniel, a major, who d. 1723, se. 61, and Ebenezer, a minister
at Providence. Lewis. Lord's Lempriere. Benedict, Hist. Bap-
tists. Eight of the name had grad. in 1828 at Harv. and Brown
colleges.
JENNER, ^THOMAS, a minister, who preached at Wey-
mouth and other places'. Was admitted freeman 1636^ and repre*
sentative in 1640. Savage, r. Winthrop, 250.
JENNINGS, RICHARD, b. ait Ipswich in England, and cam#
O/ver with Rev. Nathaniel Rogers in 1636, but returned home m 1639.
JENNISON, ROBERT, Watertown 1637, freeman 1645, had al
86ti Samuel, b. in 1645. Five of the name in 1828 had grad. at
H. C. and two at D. C. •WILLIAM, Watertown, freeman 1631,
member of the ar. co. in 1637, representative 1637 to 1642, and
1645, seven years ; captain of the military band in 1^6^. Johnsotf
[Hist. N. E. 192] calls him lenings, and supposes he Wilis in En-
ghind in 1651.
JENNY, {JOHN, Plymouth, came over in the ship James in
1623; and was elected an assistant of Plymouth colony ia 1637,
1698, and 1639.
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JEPSON, JOHN, Boston, admitted townsman 1647, had a son
John, b. in 1657, who m. Apphia Rolfe, of Newbury 1696.
JEWELL, THOMAS, Braintree 1642, had sons, Joseph, born
.24 April, 1642 ; Nathaniel, b. 15 April, 1648, and several other
children.
JEWETT, *EZEKIEL, Rowley, freeman 1669, a deacon of
the church ; representative 1690, d. 2 Sept. 1723, 8e.|80. Faith, his
wife, d. 15 Oct. 1715, as. 74. Sixteen of the name had grad. at
Harv. and Dart, in 1828. *JOS£PH, Rowley, freeman 1639, was
representative 1651 to 1654, and 1660, d. a. 1661. His last wife,
whom he m. 13 May, 1653, was widow of Bozoun Allen. He had
seven children. JEREMIAH, the eldest son of the preceding,
lived in Ipswich in 1666; [2 Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. x. IndeiL]
afterwards of Rowley, and d. there 20 May, 1714, s. 77. *MAX£-
MILIAN, Rowley, brother of Joseph Jewett, was admitted freeman
1640, representative 1641 and 16 years afterwards, and was living
in 1682. *NEHEMIAH, Ipswich, freeman 1668, representative
1689 to 1694, and probably later, speaker of the house in 1694.
JIGGLES, WILLIAM, Salem 1637, was a shipwright, and died
a. 1659.
JOHNSON, DAVY, Massachusetts, requested to be made free*
man 19 Oct. 1630. Fifty two persons of the name of Johnson
had grad. at the N. E. and N. J. colleges in 1828. EDMUND,
Hampton, d. 10 March, 1651, leaving children, Peter, John, James,
and Dorcas. His widow m. Thomas Coleman, 11 July 1651. *EI>*
WARD, the author of '' A History of New-England," called the
Wonder Working Providence, came from Herne-Hill, a parish in
Kent, to N. E. in 1630 ; was admitted freeman 18 May, 1631 ;
member of the ar. co. 1637 ; lived sometime at Charlestown, was
one of the founders of the town and church at Woburn, which town
he represented 28 years from 1643 to 1671, excepting 1648, and
was speaker a short time in 1655. He was a captain ; town clerk
a. 30 years, and sustained various other offices. He d. 23 April,
1672, leaving a widow, Susan, 5 sons, Edward, George, William,
Matthew, John, and 2 daughters. EDWARD, Mass., freeman
1638. EDWARD, Kittery, freeman 1652, perhaps the same who
was of York, and mentioned by Winthrop, i. Hist. N. E. 210, and
perhaps ii. 210. STEPHEN, Andover, had sons, Francis, b. 1666 ;
Stephen ; Joseph, and Benjamin. EDWARD, Woburn, son of
Captain Edward Johnson, m. Catharine Baker, 10 Jan. 1649, and
his son Edward, b. 5 Nov. 1650, m. Sarah Walker, 12 Jan. 1687,
and had a son Edward, b. 4 May, 1689. FRANCIS, a lieutenant,
of Salem, was admitted freeman 1631, and by Joane, his wife, had
children, Naomi, Ruth, Elizabeth, and Francis. A Francis John*
son d. in Boston in 1691. HUMPHREY, Roxbury, where his son
Mehitophel was born 16 Sept. 1644 ; of Scituate in 1655, when
his son Joseph was born. ISAAC, Boston, one of the founders of
. the Massachusetts colony, and one of its most distinguished and
' useful members. He was of Clipsham, in Rutlandshire, the son
of Abraham Johnson, esq., and grandson of Robert Johnson. His
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wife was Arabella, daughter of the Earl of Lincoln, who '' left aft
earthly paradise in the family of an earldom to encounter the aor^
rowsof a wilderness, for the entertainments of a pure worship in the
house of God." She d. at Salem soon after her arrival, in 1630, and
tradition says was buried in the Potter's field, although Judge Lynda
makes the place of her interment near the site of St. Peter's church.
Her husband survived her but a few weeks, and d. 30 Sept. 1630.
||*ISAAC, a captain of Roxbury, freeman 1635, was member
of the ar. co. 1645, and its captain in 1667, representative in 1671,
was one of the six captains slain by the Indians in taking Narrap
ganset Fort, 19 Dec. 1675. [Hubbard. Mather. Hutchinson, i.
Hist. Mass. 273.] His sons were, John, b. 3 Nov. 1639 ; Isaac, b.
2 Jan. 1644 ; Joseph, b. and d. 1645 ; Nathaniel, b. 1 May, 1647.
JAMES, Pascataqua 1631, and was there in 1647. ||JAM£S, m
captain, was a glover, member of the church, admitted freeman
1€^6, member of the ar. co. and its lieutenant in 1658. He m. a
daughter of Elder Thomas Oliver, and had sons, Joseph, b. 1644 ;
James, and John, b. 1653, and probably others. ||*JOHN, Rox*
bury, freeman 1^1, representative at the first general court 1634^
and 15 years afterwards, member of the ar. co. 1638, surveyor
general of the Massachusetts colony, d. 29 Sept. 1659, leaving 5
children, of whom John d. 1661. Savage, ii. Winthrop, Index.
JOHN, Rowley 1652. JOHN, was a proprietor of Lancaster 1654.
*JOHN, Haverhill, representative 1690. MARMADUKE, one of
the early printers in N. E. lived in Cambridge. ^MATTHEW,
Woburn, son of Captain Edward Johnson, was representative 1666,
1689 to 1692, 5 years, and probably afterwards. He m. Hannah
Palfrey, 12 Nov. 1658, and a 2d wife, Rebecca Wiswall, 23 Nov.
1666. RICHARD, Lynn 1637, perhaps also of Salem, had child-
ren, Daniel, Samuel, Elizabeth, and Abigail. He d. 1666. Lewis.
ROBERT, grad. at H. C. 1645. He may have been related to
Captain Edward Johnson, but the supposition of the late W.
Winthrop, esq., that he was his son and is alluded to in his Hist.
N. E. p. 165, is altogether improbable. SOLOMON, Sudbury
1639, freeman 1651, had sons Joshua and Nathaniel, b. 3 Feb.
1640 ; Caleb, b. 1 Feb. 1646. There was a deacon of this name
in Marlborough. THOMAS, Hingham 1635, is probably the one
named by Winthrop, [ii. Hist. N. E. 305] who met with difficulty
in conducting a raft to Boston in 1646. It appears from Boston
records that he was drowned at or near Boston, 29 May, 1656.
THOMAS, one of the early settlers of Andover, perhaps son of
James, of Boston, d. 1719, s. 88, leaving sons, John, who d. 1741 ^
s. 74 ; Thomas ; James ; Peter, and Josiah. THOMAS,"^ grad.
at H. C. 1661. WILLIAM, Charlestown, perhaps brother of Capt.
Edward Johnson, d. 9 Dec. 1677. Son James was b. in 1643.
*t WILLI AM, Woburn, son of Capt. Edward Johnson, was admitted
freeman 1651, was b. in England, probably at Herne^Hill. He was
elected representative 9 years, from 1674 to 1683, excepting 1675 ;
assistant in 1684 and 1685, one of the committee of safety in 1689 ;-
a military officer of the various grades from ensign to major. H«
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JOLLIFE. JORDAN.
i. 23 May, 1*704. Of his children, were, William, born 26 Feb.
1656 ; Edward b. 19 March, 1657 ; Ebenezer, b. 29 March, 1659.
' JOLLIFE, JOHN, Boston 1665, freeman 1673, was for many
years a leading mi^ in town affairs [Hutchinson, i. £[ist. Mass.
334] X ^^^ 9f ^^^ council of safety ip 1689, and one of the first
council uqder the charter of William and M^ry, 1692 ; d. 23 Nov.
1701. Several of this name have beep members of the British Par-
liament. The name is spelled by Hutphinson, JloyUff^.
JONES, *4BRAHAM, (EuU, freeman 1673, was representative
1^9. Fi%-eight persons of the name had gifad. at the N- %- «^d
N. J. colleges in 1825. ALEXANDER, Pascat^qua 1^631. tj^
WARDi, Mass., and pjrobaUy Charlestown, wi^s admitted freeman
1631. ELIf'flALET, settled the minister of Huntington, L. 1,
^ X^yij was son of I^ev. JoJIpji iaue% and was b<»^n at CopcQrd,
11 Js^n. 164). He was living in Api^il, 1731. Wood, His^ Sketch,
45. GRIFFITH, Springfield 16|46. HENRY, Lyna 1642,
ISAAC, Dorchester, freeman 1654. JAMES, Massachusettis, wiui
admitted freeman 1644. JOHN, one of the first ministers of Con-,
cord came to N* E. in tl^ ship Defence, with Rev. Thomas Sbep-
ard, and arrived 3 Oct. 1635. [MS Birth and Life of Rev. Thomas
Shepard.J JOHN, son of the preceding, grad. at H. C. 1643, ^d
was a,dmitted freeman in. 1645^ Johnson, ^l noticing some of lihe
early graduates of Harvard, says, *' Mx. Jones, another of the first
$;uits of this <H>llege, is employed iu these Western parts, in Mieyis,
one of the Summer Islands." Hist. N. E. 165. JOHN, Cam-
bridge 1648, freemi^n 1650, afler whi^h year he appears to have re-
e|ide$ in, Concord, and d. there, 22 Juj^, 1^73. His children were,
Samuel, b. 8 Ocl;. 1648 ; Ephraim, b, 1650 ; Elizabeth ; Joseph,
b. 1654 ; John, b. 1(6$6 ; Rebecca, and WilU.am. IXoccas, his
Di^ijdow, m. Williajn 9us^ of Cppcord. JOHN, Portsmouth 1640^
y^j^ b. i^bout 1615, a^nd was living in 1665. Belknap, i. Hist. N.
H. 47. JVM^TTHMS, Bp^ton 16^7, had sons, John and Thomas,
b. i^ IQ^ ^sld 1643. RtCE, Boston, d. 3 Jm. 1663. His son
M«ttl|§w. was-b, m 1651. THOMAS, Newbury, as early as 1639,
ni^enti to, Exeter, an4 may hav^. ^jSterwa^ds removed to Kittery , where
^Bfi a, Thoma3 Jones ii^ \^% There was a Thomas Jones, of
Qloucester, whp. d. in 1671. ^THOMAS, Dorchester, freeman
^638, iiepresentatiye at the Anarch sessipal638. Thomas, b. 1635;
l^saaC) freeman 1654, i^nd. David, of Dorchester, were probably hia
sons. THOMAS, Concord, went to Fairfield, Conn., in Sept
XMi. Sbattuck. THOMAS, Cburiestpwn, freeman 1646, d. 24
Opt 1666. THOMAS, Gji|ilford, Conn,, was an inhabitant in
1650, WILLIAM, Qan^bridge 1^35. WILLIAM, Portsmouth.
1640; Bloody-Point 1644 ^elknap, i. Hist N. H. 47. pWlL-
LI^AM, NewrHaven, wi^ an. assistant and depiiHy-governour of New*
^av^n colony, and also of Connecticut He d. 17 Oct. 1706, ».
^. His wife was a daughter of Governour Eaton.
JORDAN, FRANCIS, Ipswich 1634. ^^OBERT, Casco-Bay
16^, w^.l^rn ip I6LL ST^HEN^ Ipswich 1648, removed to
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Newbury, and d. 8 Feb. 1670. THOMAS, freeman of Massacho-
setts 1647. THOMAS, Guilford 1650.
JOSE, RICHARD, Portsmouth 1659, had sons Richard, b. 10
Not. 1660, who was sheriff of the province of New-Hampshire ;
Thomas, b. 27 June, 1669; John, h. 27 May, 1668; Samuel, b. d
May, 1672, and 4 daughters.
JOSSELYN* ♦HENRY, Scarborough, came to N. E. as early as
1631, was representative to the general court at Boston 1660, and
a counsellor under the government of Gorges. The name is spel-
led in most of oxa historiea. Jocelyn and Jocelin. JOHN, brofth-
er of the preceding,, Tisited New-England in 1638» and agaia
in 1663. In his last visit, he arrived at Boston, 28 July, 1663^
tarried there a few weeks, and then visited his brother at Scarbor-
ough, where he remained eight years, and made it his " business to
di^ver all aloi;;^ the natur^ and chyrorgical rarities of this New-
feuad-world." His work, which he caUed " New-England's Rari-
ties," &c., was published in 1672. THOMAS, Hingham 1637,
Lancaster 1654, died 3 Feb. 1661. His widow m. in 1664, Henrj
Kerly. Nathaniel, perhaps his son, admitted freeman in 1673, had
a son Nathaniel, b. in 1658. Three of the name, spelled Josselyn,
Joslen, and Joslin, grad. at Harv. Brown, and Union colleges in
1765, 1814, and 1821.
JOY, IITHOMAS, Boston 1638, member of the ar. co. 1658,
fi:eemiua 1665, removed to Hingham, and d. in 1677 or 1678. His
sons born in Boston, were, Samuel, in 1639 ; Thomas, in 1642 ;
Joseph, ip 1645 ; Ephraim, in 1646. Snow, Hist. Boston, t06.
Savage, ii. Winthrop, 294. Lincoln, Hist. Hingham, 52.
JOYCE, JOHN, Lynn, removed to Sandwich 1637. Lewis.
JOYLIFFE, JOHN, Boston 1665, (See Jollippb.)
JUDD, THOMAS, Cambridge 1634, freeman 163a Thomas
Judd, one of the first settlers of Waterbury, Conn, was great-grand-
&tber of Rev Jonathan Judd, first minister of Southampton, Ms..
who d. 28 July, 1803 in his 84 year. Eleven of the name had grad;
at the N. E. colleges in 1826.
JUDKINS, JOB, Boston 1638, had sons, Samuel, b. 1638, and
Joel, b. 1643. THOMAS, Gloucester 1664.
JUDSON, WILLIAM, Concord 1635, came from England in.
1634, with his sons Joseph, Jeremiah, and Joshua. He removed to
Hartford in 1639. Nineteen persons of this name had grad. at
Yale and Brown colleges in 1828.
KALDER, AUSTIN, Dedham 1639, had a son Lot, b. in 1640.
KATHARICK, MICHAEL, Massachusetts, was admitted free-
man in 1641. Savage, ii. Winthrop, 371.
KEAIS, SAMUEL, Portsmouth, a deacon, m. Maiy Hody in
1696, and had a son Samuel, b. in 1697. Alden, in i. Coll. Mass.
Hist. Soc. X.
KEAYNE, BENJAMIN, a merchant of Boston, and the only son
of Capt. Robert, was admitted freeman 1639, was a niajor; m. a
daughter of Gov. Thomas Dudley, whom he repudiated, and d. asr
Mr. Savage supposes^ in 1668. i. Winthrop, 314. ii. 4. CHRI8-
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TOPHER, Cambridge, gelled also Cayne, Cane, and Kme, was a
member of the church, with his wife Margery, and d. as early as
1658, leaving children, Jonathan, Nathaniel, Deborah, Ruth, and
Esther. HUMPHREY, Massachusetts, was admitted freeman,
1642. JAMES, (See Keene.) ||*R0BERT, a merchant of Bos-
ton, a captain, and one of the founders of the artillery company, was
admitted freeman in 1636, represented Boston in 1638 and 1639,
and d. 23 March, 1656. Savage, ii. Winthrop, Index. Whitman,
Hist. Ar. Co. 10, 29—37.
KEENE, JAMES, Braintree, was the first captain of that place,
as appears by a scrap found in the town records. John Keene grad.
at H. C. 1709.
KEEP, JOHN, Long-Meadow (Springfield) 1644. Sprague,
Hist. Disc. 83.
KEITH, JAME8, the first minister of Bridgewater, came from
Scotland, a. 1662, having been educated at the university of Aber-
deen. He was ordained in the spring of 1664, and d. 23 July,
1719, as. 76. His first wife was Susanna Edson, his 2d, widow Ma-
ry Williams, of Taunton. His sons were, James, Joseph, Samuel,
Timothy, John, and Josiah, whose posterity are scattered througb-
out the U. S. There was in Bridgewater alone, in 1810, 200 per-
sons bearing the name of Keith. 2 Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. vii. 161,
162.
KELLOGG, JOSEPH, a lieutenant of Hadley 1662. SAMUEL,
wasofHadley in 1669.
KELLOND, THOMAS, Boston 1666. 2 Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc.
viii. 68, 106. See i. Hutch. Hist. Mass. 223.
KELLY, ABEL, Salem, from whence he removed, was member of
the church in 1641. ||DAVID, Boston, member of the ar. co. 1644,
had sons, David, b. 1647; Samuel, b. 1653. JOHN, Newbury,
one of the first settlers, d. 28 Dec. 1644, leaving several children,
of whom John, b. 2 July, 1642, lived in Newbury, was admitted
fi'eeman 1669, and d. 21 March, 1718, s. 76, leaving among other
children, a son John, b. 17 June, 1668, and who d. 29 Nov. 1735,
leaving two sons, 1. John, b. 8 Oct. 1697, d. in Atkinson, N. H. 27
April, 1783, se. 85, and was father of Moses, a colonel, and the
sheriff of Hillsborough county, who d. 2 Aug. 1824, ©. 86, and
William, H. C. 1767, the first minister of Warner, N. H. ordained
6 Feb. 1772, dismissed 1801, and d. 18 May, 1813, le. 66, whose
son John, D. C. 1804, is a counsellor at law, and was one of the
founders of the N. H. Hist. Society, and its recording secretary ; 2.
Richard, b. 8 May, 1704, who d. in 1774, the grand-fiither of John,
D. C. 1791, ordained the 2d minister of Hampstead, N. H. 6 Dec.
1792. *ROGER, representative £>r the Isles of Shoals, at the first
general court of Mass. under the new charter 1692.
KELSEY, WILLIAM, Cambridge, was admitted fi-eeman in
1635. This name exists in N. H. and is sometimes spelled Keho.
KEMP, EDWARD, Dedham, freeman 1638, perhaps the same
person who d. at Chelmsford, 17 Dec. 1668. SAMUEL, Billerica
1659, probably afterwards of Andover and Groton.
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KEMPSTER, DANIEL, Cambridge, was admitted freeman
1647.
KEMPTON,EPHRAIM,Scituatel645. MANASSEH, Plym-
outh, came to N. E. before 1631. Julian, his widow, d. in 1664,
». 81. Davis, Morton's Memo. 226.
KENDAL, FRANCIS, Woburn, freeman 1647, is ancestor to
most of the name (now generally written KendaU) in N. E. Eleven
had grad. at the N. £. colleges in 1828, of whom are Samuel, H. C.
1731, was minister of New-Salem, and d. 31 Jan. 1792, as. 85 ;
Samuel, D. D., H. C. 1782, was ordained at Weston, Mass. 5 Nov.
1785, d. 15 Feb. 1815, s. 61 ; David, H. C. 1794, ordained at
Hubbardston, Mass. 20 Oct. 1802 ; and James, D. D., who grad.
at H. C. 1796, and was ordained over the 1st church in Plymouth,
Mass., 1 Jan. 1800. JOHN, Cambridge 1647, perhaps the freeman
of Woburn admitted in 1679. THOMAS, Lynn, freeman 1648,
removed to Reading.
KENNEY, RICHARD, New-Hampshire 1680. THOMAS,
Gloucester 1664. Gibbs.
KENNET, RICHARD, Boston, d. 1 April, 1693.
KENNICUT, ROGER, Maiden 1670. Thomas grad. at Brown
College in 1822.
KENNISTON, ALLEN, Salem, freeman 1642, died a. 1668.
JOHN, Greenland, N. H. 1676, had his house burnt, and was him-
self killed by the Indians, 16 April 1677. i. Belknap. Hist. N. H.
127.
KENRICK, GEORGE, Plymouth and Scituate, freeman 1635
by Plymouth colony, went to Rehoboth 1645. 2 Coll. Mass. Hist.
Soc. iv. 239. JOHN, Boston 1639, and member of the church,
was admitted freeman 1654, removed to Muddy*River, now Brook-
line, where Anna, his wife, d. 15 Nov. 1656, from thence to Newton,
where d. 29 Aug. 1686, aged 82. Judith, probably his widow, d.
at Roxbury, 23 August, 1687. Of his children, were Joseph, b. 18
Feb. 1640 ; John, the ancestor of John, esq. of Newton, 3 Oct. 1641;
Elisha, b. 18 Oct. 1645, and 3 daughters. Many of his descend-
ants write the name Kendrick, of whom are Daniel and William
Poole, brothers, graduates at Brown and Harvard. JOHN, Ipswich
and Rowley, m. Lydia Cheney, 12 Nov. 1657.
KENT, JAMES, Newbury, freeman 1669, d. Dec. 1681, leaving,
besides other children, a son John, to whom was given, by his uncle
Richard, Kents Island in Parker River, during the life of said John,
and at his death to descend to the son of John, Colonel Richard
Kent, who entailed it to his son Captain Richard, and thence to de-
scend to the eldest male heir, in perpetuum. Coffin. JOHN, Mas-
sachusetts, was admitted freeman in 1654. JOHN, Newbury, d.
30 Jan. 1718, aged 78. JOHN, who settled in Suffield, Conn., as
early as 1686, d. 1721, leaving a son Elisha, Y. C. 1729, a clergy-
man, whose son Moss, Y. C. 1752, was father of the Hon. James,
LL. D. the distinguished jurist and late the chancellor of the State
of New-York. JOSHUA, Dedham, freeman 1646. One of this
name d. at Boston, 5 Jan. 1703. From one of the early families of
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tills name in Massachusetts, it is supposed Ebeneser Kent of Charles-
town descended, who was master of a vessel near 50 years, and who
after having his property destroyed hy the British in the conda^-
tion of Charlestown, retired to Reading, and d. in 1776, m* 72.
Ebenezer, his son, b. at CharlestoWn in 1790, d. in London in 1766,
leaving two sons, Ebenezer, an officer in the American revolation,
and William Austin, of Concord, N. H., a Senator of the N. Hamp*
shire legislature in 1809, 1813, and 1814, whose sons are. Colonel
William ; George, D« C. 1814 ; John, who d. at Boston 1896, and
Edward, H. C. 1821. RICHARD, Ipswich^ received a gratit df
land in 1635, near Chebacco Ri\er ; was admitted freeman 1635,
vrent with the first settlers to Newbury, where he d. 11 June, 1654.
He left several daughters and an only son John, perhaps the free*
man of 1654, whose son John was father of Richard and Johti.
Coffin. Felt. RICHARD, Newbury as early as 1636, wis
brother of James, the first named in this article. He d. ^5 Nov.
1689, without issue. Coffin. STEPHEN, Newbury, brother of
the first Richard, freeman 1639, removed to Haverhill and from
thence to Woodbridge, N. J. Coffin. SAMUEL, Springfield, d. 2
Feb. 1691. IIWILLIAM, Boston, member of the ai*. eo. d. 9 June,
1691.
KERLEY, HENRY, bom a. 1633, was a captahi and lived in
Lancaster in 1653, from thence went to Marlborough after 1676.
[Revo, in N. E. Just. 35.] His wife, a sister of Mary Rowlandson,
was killed by the Indians in 1676. Sons Henry and William were
b. in 1658 and 1659. WILLIAM, Sudbury a. 1641, removed to
Lancaster and d. 14 July, 1670, leaving a son William, of Sudbury
in 1646, and of Lancaster in 1653.
KETCHAM, EDWARD, Massachusetts, freeman 1637. JOHN,
whose name is spelled Catcham, was of Ipswich in 1648. EdWard,
John, and Samuel were of Huntington, L. I. in 1672, and John tt
early as 1665.
KETTLE, RICHARD, Charlestown, freeman 1635, bad sons,
John, b. 1639, perhaps of Portsmouth in 1663; Joseph, b. 1640,
freeman 1670, Samuel, b. 1642, freeman 1670, d. in 1676 ; Nathan^
iel, b. 1644, and perhaps William who d. in 1679. Rtehard d. 98
June, 1680. Edward, of Boston, d. 1704, ng, 50.
KEYES, ROBERT, Watertown 1633, had a son Elias and sev-
eral daughters, b. there. He may have removed to Newbury and d.
there, 16 July, 1647, having a daughter b. in 1645. SOLOMON,
Newbury 1654. JOHN, Springfield 1669. Five of the name had
grad. in 1826.
KEYSER, GEORGE, Lynn, born a. 1617, was a tanner, free-
nan 1638, removed to Salem and d. Sept. 1690, aged 73. He m.
Elizabeth Holyoke. Lewis. THOMAS, Lynn 1638, had a son
Timothy, b. in Boston 1645.
KIBBY, IIHENRY, Dorchester, freeman 164^, member of the
ar. CO. 1644, d. 10 July, 1661.
KIDDER, JAMES, Cambridge 1653, Billerical663,had98Dns,
oiwk^m James, b. 3 Jan. 1654, Enoeh, and EpfaiaiBa settled hr Bff*
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lerica, from whence two of his descendants, Jonathan and Joseph,
grad. at Harv. and Yale in 1751 and 1764. The latter, minister of
Donsuble, N. H., d. Sept. 1818, e. 77. THADDEUS, Lynn,
freeman 1672.
KILBURN, GEORGE, Rowley, freeman 1644.
KILCUP, IIROGER, Boston, member of the ar. co. d. 1 Oct.
1702, e. 52.
KILHAM, AUSTIN, freeman 1641. DANIEL, spelled Kilhen,
by Whitman, was member of the ar. co. 1645. Daniel, his son, was
freeman 1680. JOHN, Wenham 1654.
KIMBALL, HENRY, Watertown, freeman 1638, had sons John
and Richard, born in 1637 and 1643. The last was probably ad-
mitted freeman in 1685. This name which had in 1825 furnished
28 graduates at the N. £. colleges, is written in the ancient records
Kembal, and Kemble, and, it is probable, was formerly the same as
Kemble, a name common in England, whereas it is said that Kim-
ball is seldom or never found there. RICHARD, freeman 1635,
was one of the early proprietors of Watertown, and received the
grant of a house-lot, 23 Feb. 1637, in Ipswich, to which place ha
probably removed. RICHARD, Ipswich, d. in 1675, leaving a
wife, and sons, Henry, Richard, Thomas, Benjamim, and Caleb,
most of them young, and daughters, Elizabeth, Mary, Sarah, and
the wife of John Severns. Felt. THOMAS, of Ipswich in 1665,
was one of the first settlers of Bradford, where he was killed by the
Indians, 3 May, 1676, and his wife and 5 children, viz. Joanna,
Thomas, Joseph, Priscilla, and John, were taken prisoners, carried
40 miles into the wilderness, but returned on the 13 June, the same
year. Hubbard, Indian Wars, 84. Ferry, Hist. Discourse.
KIND, ARTHUR, Boston 1646, had son James, b. in 1655.
KING, DANIEL, a merchant, was born a. 1601, came to N. E.
and settled at Lynn as early as 1648, d. 27 May, 1672. His son
Daniel was also of Lynn in 1648. Lewis. GEORGE, Newbury,
freeman 1637, removed from thence. JOHN, Cambridge 1635.
•JOHN, Northampton, a. 1654, was representative in 1679. •PE-
TER, Sudbury 1654, a deacon of the church, was representative
1689 and 1690, d. 27 Aug. 1704. RALPH, a captain, resided in
Lynn 1648, and d. 1689. Lewis. THOMAS, Sudbury, d. 3 Jan.
1644. Shattuck. THOMAS, Watertown 1641, Sudbury 1656^
was one of the petitioners for the grant of Marlborough. THO-.
MAS, an elder of the church, Scituate 1638. Coffin. WILLIAM,
admitted freeman 1636, appears to have lived in Salem and Lynn..
A William King d. in Boston in 1690.
KINGMAN, •HENRY, Weymouth, freeman 1636^ was a rep-
resentative in 1652, and d. in May, 1660, leaving sons,. Edward ;
Thomas, perhaps freeman 1681, and John, freeman 1^36, and d
daughters. JOHN, of Weymouth, probably his son, removed quite
early to Bridgewater. 2 Coll. Mass. Hist Soc. vii. 1^.
KINGSBURY, HENRY, came to N. E. in 1630, and was living^
at Ipswich in 1648. Savage, i. Winthrop, 368, 375. •JOHN,^
Dedham, freeman 1636, representative 1M7. John KiBssbuxy. at
26 160i
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proprietor of Watertown, was probably the same. JOSEPH, Ded*
nam, fireeman 1641, had sons, Joseph, b. 1640; John, b. 1618;
Eleazar, b. 1645, and very probably others. Some account of him
may be found in Worthington's Hist. Dedham, p. 100. THOMAS,
perhaps a brother of Henry, came over, it is believed, at the same
time with him. See Winthrop, ii. Hist. N. £. 340.
KINGSWORTH, HENRY, Guilford 1650.
KINGSTON, THOMAS, Rowley, freeman 1673.
KINSLEY, JOHN, Dorchester 1636, had a son Eldad, b. b
1638. SAMUEL, one of the early settlers of Billerica, was admit-
ted fireeman 1651, d. 21 May, 1662. Spelled also Kingsley. STE-
PHEN, one of the first ruling elders of the church, in Braintree,
settled at Dorchester, but soon removed to Braintree, waa admitted
freeman 1640, ordained ruling elder 12 Oct. 1653. Whitney, Hist.
Quincy, 37.
KINSMAN, ROBERT, Ipswich, received a grant of land in
1637, and d. in January 1665. Robert, his son, was admitted
freeman 1674, and was probably the representative firom Ipswich
in 1692. Revolution in N. E. Justified, 14.
KIRK, THOMAS, sent in 1665 to arrest Messrs. Whailey and
Qoffe. Hutch.
KIRB Y, RICHARD, Lynn, went to Sandwich in 1637. Lewis.
WILLIAM, Boston 1640.
KIRMAN, ♦JOHN, Cambridge 1632, representative in March
1635. He may have removed to Weymouth.
KIRTLAND, JOHN, Lynn 1641. NATHANIEL, Lynn 1088,
went to South-Old, L. I., was one of the first settlers there, but re-
turned to Lynn and d. in Dec. 1686. PHILIP, a shoemaker, of
Lynn 1636, and probably the first in a place which is now celebrat-
ed for its numbers of this occupation, went with the preceding to
South-Old. His son Philip remained at Lynn. This name is ofietl
spelled Kertland, Lewis.
KITCHELL, ROBERT, Guilford 1650. 1 Coll. Mass. Hist.
Soc. X.
KITCHEN, JOHN, Salem, admitted to the church 1643, free-
man 1642, is styled a shoemaker in deeds of conveyance.
KITTREDGE, JOHN, the ancestor of all of the name in thid
country, came when a young man fVom England, without any rela-
tions, excepting his mother, and settled at Billerica as a farmer,
[Mr. N. Kittredge] and there d. 18 Oct. 1676. His children were,
1. John, b. 24 Jan. 1666, m. Hannah French, 3 Aug. 1685, had
11 children, six being sons, and d. 27 April, 1614, being the fir&ft
of die name in America styled Dr., a prefix so common among his
descendants ; (Rev. Mr. Abbot [Hist. Andover, 150] mistakes in
saying he came from Germany ;) 2. Janles, b, 21 March, 1668 ; 3.
Daniel, b. 23 July, 1670, who had 7 children ; 4. Jonathltn, bom
1674, d. 1696; 5. Benoni, b. 1677. Descendants ^re very nu-
merous.
KNAP, NICHOLAS, Watertown 1631, had sons, Timothy, b.
1632; Joshua, b. 1634; Caleb, b. 1636. WILLIAM, WatertOWft
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KNAP. KNOWLEa.
2640, d. 30 August, 1658, e. 80. His son William was of Water-
town in 1640. Fr. Kna[^, an Englishman, and the author of one
of the recommendatory poc^ms addressed to Pope, which he wrote
ia N. E. lived in Watertown, and might be of this family.
KNEELAND, PHIUP, Lynn 1637. Samuel, William, and
William Koeeland grad. at H. C. 1743, 1744, and 1751. The lasl
William was a physician, and d. 2 Nov. 1788, s. 56.
KNIGHT, ALEXANDER, Ipswich 1635. EZEKIEL, Salem
1637, Braintree 1640, where his son Ezekiel was born. There
was an Ezekiel Knight of WeUs in 1653. GEORGE, Hingham
1638. Lincoln, Hist. Hingham, 4& JOHN, Newbury 1635, had
sons, John, b. 1648 ; Joseph, b. 1652. JOHN, Watertown, free-
man 1636, was a proprietor of Sudbury. JOHN, Woburn 1653,
gl Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. i. 44] was perhaps the freeman of 1643.
ICHAEL, Massachusetts, freeman 1654. PHILIP, Wenham
1669. RICHARD, Weymouth 1638, [Winthrop, ii. Hist. N. E.
3481 apd perhaps the same who was admitted a townsman of Boston,
31 Jan. 1642, and member of the church. RICHARD, a deacon,
was brother of the first named John, was born a. 1602, lived in
Newbury ; was admitted freeman 1636. ROBERT, Boston 1642,
had sons, Samuel and James, b. in 1642 and 1653. ROBERT,
Marblehead 1648. ROBERT, Kittery 1652. ROGER, Pascata-
qoa 1631. Belknap, i. Hist. N. H. Appx. WALTER, Salem
1627. WILLIAM, Salem, was admitted an inhabitant, 2 Jan.
1637, probably removed to Lynn, and d. 5 Jan. 1656. The chil-
dren of the one at Lynn were, Jacob, who d. 1695 ; Ann ; Francis ;
Hann^ih ; Daniel ; Elizabeth, and Mary. Lewis. [ WILLIAMA
the first minister c^ Topsfield, was admitted freeman 1638, received
a grant of 200 acres .of land at Ipswich in 1639, began to preach
at Ti^siield in July, 1641, and died, it is supposed, in 1655. He
is mentioned in Mather's First Classis of ministers, but without a
christian name, which I have supplied as above on the authority of
Rev. Mr. Felt, and Mr. Coffin.
KNOLL YS, HANSERD, one of the early preachers at Dover,
from whence he soon went to Long*Island, and is said to have re-
turned to England, and there d. 19 Sept. 1691, s. 93. Belknap, i.
Hist. N. H. 41. Savage, i. Winthrop, 291, ii. 5.
KNOTT, GEORGE, settled in Sandwich 1637, whither h^
went, it is supposed, from Lynn. Lewis.
KNOWER, THOMAS, Massachusetts 1631. Winthrop, i. Hist.
N. E. 72. GEORGE, d. at Maiden, 13 Feb. 1675.
KNOWLES, ^ALEXANDER, Massachusetts, fi-eeman 1636,
went to Connecticut, and was elected a magistrate in 1657. JOUN^
the second minister of Watertown, was b. in Lincolnshire ; was
educated at Magdalen College, in Cambridge, was chosen fellow of
Catharine-Hall in 1625 ; came to N. E. in 1639, and the same year
was admitted member of the church in Boston. He was ordained,
9 Dec. 1640, as colleague with Rev. George Phillips ; went as a
missionary to Virginia in 1642, returned to Watertown the jaext
fmtf ai^d in 1650, sailed for England, and was a preacher in the
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cathedral of Bristol, but was silenced in 1662. He then went to
London, and was there during the plague in 1665. This worthy
man, who should have been commemorated by Eliot and Allen, and
whose death should have been marked by Savage, died 10 Nov.
1685, at an advanced age. Calamy [ii. Account, 605—668] gives
a good account of his character. One of his children was born at
Watertown in 1641. RICHARD, Cambridge 1638, whose son
James was b. 17 Nov. 1648.
KNOWLTON, JOHN, Ipswich, freeman 1641, died a. 1654,
leaving children, John, freeman 1680; Abraham, and Elizabeth.
THOMAS, a deacon of Ipswich 1648, brother of John, d. 3 April,
1692. WILLIAM, Ipswich, a bricklayer, d. 1644. Felt. WIL-
LIAM, Hingham 1635, whom Lincoln [Hist. Hingham, 43] calls
NoUon,
KOLDOM, IICLEMENT, member of the ar. co. 1645. (See
COLDHAM.)
LACY, LAURENCE, Andover, had a son Laurence, b. 1683.
Abbot, Hist. Andover, 39.
LADD, DANIEL, a lieutenant, came over as early as 1639, aod
settled at Ipswich. William Ladd, esq. grad. at H. C. in 1797.
LAIGHTON, •THOMAS, Lynn, freeman 1638, representative
1646, 1648 to 1653, 1656 to 1658, 1660 and 1661, 12 years, died
8 August, 1697. His children were, Thomas, freeman 1672 ; Mar-
garet ; Samuel; Rebecca, and Elizabeth. Lewis. The name is
spelled Laughton and Layton in old records.
LAKE, JOHN, admitted to the church in Boston and freeman in
1644, was a tailor, and had a son Caleb, b. 1655. THOMAS, Bos-
ton, admitted freeman 1641, may have been the merchant mention-
ed by Hutchinson and Hubbard, or the merchant may have been the
Thomas Lake, who was admitted freeman in 1671. Stephen and
Thomas, sons of Thomas Lake were born in Boston in 1649 and
1656. William Lake was of Salem in 1665. A Capt. Lake was
killed in Maine iii 1676, by the Indians. See Hubbard's Indian
Wars.
LAKEMAN, •WILLIAM, was representative of the Isles of
Shoals in 1692.
LAKIN, JOHN, was one of the firstproprietorsofGroton, where
was a Lieut. Lakin in 1677. THOMAS, admitted freeman 1670.
WILLIAM, Groton, d. 10 Dec. 1672, ». 91.
LAMB, EDWARD, was one of the proprietors of Watertown in
1633. His son Samuel was b. 1637. Joshua Lamb is named in 1
Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. v. 236. THOMAS, came over in 1630 in
the fleet with Gov. Winthrop and settled at Roxburv, where he d.
3 April, 1645. His wife d. in 1639. Winthrop, 'ii. Hist. N. E.
340. WILLIAM, Boston, d. in 1685. John and Daniel Lamb d.
at Springfield in 1690 and 1692. >
LAMBERT, FRANCIS, Rowley, d. 1648. JONATHAN, Row-
ley in 1664. Four persons of this name had grad. at the N. E. col-
leges in 1826. MIGHILL, Lynn 1644, lived on Nahant, and d. 18
Aug., 1676. Lewis. RICHARD, Salem 1637. ROBERT, came
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LAMBERTON. LANGHORNE.
from Dartmouth, England, and was one of the founders of the first
Baptist church in Boston 1665.
LAMBERTON, , New-Haven 1643, was one of the prin-
cipal inhabitants, and one of the owners of the ship in which he
and a number of worthy persons were lost at sea, the beginning of
the jear 1646. Johnson, Hist. N. E. 214. Winthrop, ii. Hist. N,
£. 266. Mather, i. Magnalia, 76—78.
LAMPREY, HENRY, Boston 1653. This name exists in New-
Hampshire.
LAMPSON, BARNABAS, Cambridge 1635. WILLIAM, Ips-
wich, freeman 1637, died 1 Feb. 1659.
LANDEN, JOHN, Portsmouth 1640. 1 Belknap, 47. Adams
[Annals 395] gives this name Lander. THOMAS, Lynn, removed
to Sandwich 1637. Lewis.
LANE, ANDREW, Hingham 1635, perhaps went to Portsmouth,
where Andrew Lane purchased in 1650, houses, &c. valued at.
jflOOO sterling. Lincoln, Hist. Hingham, 43. *JOB, Maiden,,
fireeman 1656, removed to Billerica, (that part which is now Bed-
ford) which he represented in 1676 and 1679 ; was the representa-
tive of Maiden in 1685, to which place he may have returned. His
son. Major John Lane, was representative of Billerica in 1702, and
d. 17 Jan. 1715. Ten persons of the name in N* E. had received
a publick education in 1826. SAMSON, Pascataqua 1631 » be-
longed to Teignmouth, Devonshire. WILLIAM, Boston 1651,
freeman 1657, had sons Samuel and John, b. in 1651 and 1653.
Henry Lane d. at Boston in 1690.
LAN6DON, BENJAMIN, Boston 1678, where were also David,
John, and Philip Langdon, who had children born as early as 1685.
Philip, who d. 11 Dec. 1697, had a son Samuel, b, 22 Dec. 1687,
the father of Rev. Samuel Langdon, D. D., born 12 Jan. 1723, grad.
1740 at H. C. of which he was president from 1774 to 1780, hav-
ing previously been the minister of the first church in Ports-
mouth. ]^ was afterwards settled at Hampton-Falls, in N. H.,
where he d. 29 Nov. 1797, s. 75. TOBIAS, Portsmouth, m. Mary
Hubbard, 17 Nov. 1686, and had 6 sons, of whom, John, the
youngest, b. 28 May, 1704, was father of Hon. John Langdon, of
Portsmouth, senator in Congress from N. H. 12 years, chief magis-
trate of the State 8 years, two of which were with the title of Presi-
dent. Governour Langdon was b. 1740, d. 18 Sept. 1819, s. 79.
Fourteen persons of the name had grad. at the N. E. colleges in
1826.
LANGER, RICHARD, Hingham 1636. Lincoln, Hist. Hing-
ham, 44.
LANGFORD, JOHN, Salem, fi^eeman 1645, was living there
in 1689, as appears from the Revolution in New-England Justified,
p. 41.
LANGHORNE, RICHARD, Rowley, d. 1669. Spelled also
Langkome. THOMAS, spelled also Longkom, was of Cambridge
in 1647, and had children, Samuel, Mercy, Sarah, Elizabeth, Mary,
and Patince.
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LANGLEY. LAWRBIKffi.
LANGLEY, ABEL, Rowley befc»e 1652. WILLIAM, Lynn,
was admitted freeman 1638. (See Longlby.)
LANGSTAFF, HENRY, Pascataqua 1631, was one of grand
jury in 1643.
LANKTON, GEORGE, Northampton, a. 1658. Rev. Levi
Lankton^ Y. C. 1777, was the minister of Alstead, N. H. This
name is probably the same which is often spelled Langtotiy which
nay be the true orthography. JOSEPH, Ipswich 1648. ROGER,
Ipswich, freeman 1635. SAMUEL, freeman 1681. Re?. Samuel
Laogton was ordained minister of the 2d parish in York, 3 July,
1754, and d. in Dec. 1794.
LAPHAM, THOMAS, Scituate 1668.
LARGE, WILLIAM, Hingham 1635, removed to Province-
Town, Cape Cod. Lincoln, Hist. Hingham, 43.
LARKHAM, THOMAS, a minister at Dover, came from Not-
ham, in England, which name, probably in compliment to him, was
given to Cocheco, or Dover, a. 1642. He begvin preaching at Do*
yer, a. 1640, left the place in 1642, returned to England, aod died
1669, e. 68. Winthrop. Calamy. Belknap. Mordecai and Come-
Uus Larkham were inhabitants of Beverly in J 681 and 1697.
LARKIN, IIEDWARD, Charlestown, freeman 1640, member of
the ar. co. 1644, had sons, John, b. 1640, d. 27 Dec. 1677 ; Tho-
mas, b. 1644, d. 20 May, 1676. Descendants are numerous in
Af asfi&chusettfi
LARNIT, ISAAC, Woburn 1653 [3 Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. i.
45] ; removed to Chelmsford and was one of the first settlers, and
d. there 4 Dec. 1^7. This name is probably the same with JLam'
edor Lemed,
LASKIN, HUGH, Salem 1637, freeman 1639, d. a. 1659.
LATHAM, CARY, Camteidge 1642. ROBERT, Caaihridge,
lived two or more years with Rev. Thomas Shepard, removed to
Bridg€water ; had two sons, James and Chilton. 2 Coll. Mass.
Hist. goc. vii. MS Diary of Rev. Thomas Shepard. WILLIAM,
Plymouth 1623. This name exists in Massachusetts and New-
Hampshire.
LATIMORE, CHRISTOPHER, Marblehead 1648. John
Latimer grad. at H. C. 1703.
LAURIE, GILBERT, Boston, &om whence he weni to
Portsmouth, where he was a preacher in the absence of Mr. Moodey,
in 1686. 1 Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. x. 45. Adams, Annals Ports-
mouth, 86.
LAW, ANDREW, Hingham 1654, had sons, Joshua, Josiah,
and Caleb. John and George Law were also of Hingham in 1652.
JOHN, Conccnrd, m. Lydia Draper, and had sons, John, b. 1661 ;
Thomas, b. 1663; Stephen, born 1665, and Samuel. Shattuck.
RICHARD, a principal gentleman of Stamford 1664. Trumbull.
LA WES, FRANCIS, Salem, freeman 1637, died a. 1666, leav-
ing a daughter Mary, the wife of John Neal.
LAWRENCE, JOHN, Watertown, freeman 1637, whose wife
was Elizabeth, had children, John, b. 14 March, 1636; NathanieL
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h. 1689, of Groton, and freeman 1671 ; Joseph, b. 1643 ; Marv, b.
1645; Peleg, b. 11 Jan. 1648 ; Enoch, b. 5 May, 1649, in. Ruth
Sbattuck. THOMAS, was admitted freeman 163S, and died at
Hingham, 5 Nov. 1655.
LAWSON, CHRISTOPHER, Boston 1643, was born a. 1616,
He appears to ha?e been in N. H. in 1644. His son Thomas was
bom in Boston, 1643. DEODATE, a preacher at Danvers in
1688, was admitted freeman 1680, and was settled the third minis*
ter of the 2d church in ScituatOj^ from which he was dismissed m
1698.
LAY, ROBERT, Lynn 1638. John Lay grad. at Y. C. in 1780,
LAYLAND, HENRY, Dorchester 1653.
LAYTON, THOMAS, Dover, d. 22 Jan. 1672, leaving a son
Thomasj whose descendants remain in Dover,, where the name iA
now written, as perhaps it might have been formerly, Leighton*
LAZELL, ISAAC, Hingham 1649, removed to Bridgewater.
Rev. Ebenezer Lazell grad. at Y. C. 1788.
LEACH, JOHN, Salem 1637, died a. 1659. LAWRENCE,
Salem, was admitted freeman in 1631, d. 1662, sb. 83, leaving a
widow Elizabeth and son, Clement, who lived in England. Rich-*
ard, another son, died in 1647, and left a son John. Felt, Annals
Salem, 119, 215. ROBERT, Salem 1637, was freeman 1644.
RICHARD, Salem, member of the church 1648^ d. 1687, leaving
several children.
LEADBETTER, HENRY, Dorchester, was admitted freeman
1671.
LEADER, GEORGE, Kittery 1654. JOHN, Boston 1652, had
a son Thomas, born there in 1654. RICHARD, Pascataqua, wa«
in possession of Capt. John Mason's lands at Newichawannock iQ
1652. Belknap, i. Hist. N. H. 86. Winthrop, in a letter to his son
[ii. Hist. N. E. 356] speaks of a Mr. Leader, as does Felt in h^
Annals of Salem, and Lewis in his Annals of Lynn. THOMASit
Boston 1647, d. 28 Oct. 1663.
LEAGER, JACOB, Boston, was admitted freeman in 1641, an4
d. 24 Feb. 1664.
LEAKE, THOMAS^ Dorchester, was admitted to the church
1640, d, 27 Oct. 1678. Davenport's Sexton's Monitor. It is pos-
sible that* this was the Thomas Lake admitted freeman in 1641.
LEARNED, ISA AC. (See Lahnit.) William^ Wobnm, prob^*
ably son of the preceding.
LEAVITT, *JOHN, Hingham, freeman 1636, representative
1644, 1656, 1664, and perhapd at the Oct. session in 1690, was a
deacon, and d. 20 Nov, 1691, ». 83. His children were, John,
who d. before 1690 ; Samuel ; Israel, b. 14 Sept. 1637 ; Moses ;
Josiah, b. 4 May, 1653; Nehemiah, b. 21 Jan. 1656; Mary ; Sa-
rah ; Hannah, and AbigaiL Samuel and Moses probably settled in
Exeter, where two of these names were living in 1683. [Bel-
knap, i. Hist. N. H. Appx.] Israel had a son John, who died 29
July, 1748, leaving a son John, who d. 13 April, 1797, ae. 88. Lin-
coln. Hist. Hingham, 44, 175. JOHN, Bk>ody.Point, N. H. 1645.
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LEAVITT. LEIGHTON.
THOMAS, Exeter 1639. Aratus Leavitt, had a son Thomas, b.
in N. H. in 1686.
LECHFORD, ||THOMAS, one of the earliest lawyers in N. E.,
was of Boston in 1638, and a member of the ar. co. in 1640. He
is author of a tract, entitled, *\ Plain-Dealing : or Nerves from
New-England," which was published in London in 1642.
LEE, ABRAHAM, was a chymist, and lived in Dover in 1680,
and was killed by the Indians 27 June 1689. The name of Lee
had furnished 24 graduates at the N. E. colleges in 1826, of whom
the first at H. C. was Thomas Lee, 1722, a merchant of Salem, who
d. 14 July, 1747, s. 45. Joseph Lee, H. C. 1729, was a judge of
the court of common pleas, and d. 5 Dec. 1782. JOHN, Ipswich
1648, d. 1671. John his eldest son was a surgeon in the navy;
Joseph, another son, m. Mary Woodhouse, and settled in Concord
as early as 1696. Shattuck. SAMUEL, minister of Bristol, was
born in London in 1623 ; was educated at Oxford ; came to N. E.
24 June, 1686, and was settled at Bristol, (now R. I.) 8 May, 1687.
He sailed for England in 1691 ; was captured by a French privs^
teer, and carried into St. Maloes, in France, where he d. in 1691,
in his 64th year. Holmes, i. Annals, 435. SAMUEL, Maiden,
was admitted freeman in 1671. [ ] Plymouth 1644. 2 ColL
Mass. Hist. Soc. iii. 184. THOMAS, Ipswich 1648, brother of John
Lee, d. in 1662, aged a. 82. WALTER, Northampton 1659»
Westfield 1676.
LEEDS, BENJAMIN, Dorchester, member of the church 1658^
freeman 1670. Joseph Leeds lived in Dorchester in 1658, and
perhaps in Westfield in 1666. Two of the name of Daniel Leeds
grad. at H. C. in 1761 and 1783. RICHARD, Salem 1637.
LEET, {ANDREW, eldest son of Governour William Leet, was
chosen magistrate in 1678. He m. a daughter of Thomas Jordan.
JOHN, brother of Andrew, was, it is said, the first male child born
in Guilford. tJ§WILLIAM, came to N. E. in 1637, and settled
at Guilford as early as 1643 ; removed to Hartford, where he d. 16
April, 1683. He was an assistant of New-Haven colony from 1643
to 1657 ; deputy-governour in 1658 ; governour in 1661 ; assistant
of Conn, ailer its union with New-Haven 1665 ; deputy-governour
1669 to 1675 ; governour 1676.
LEFFINGWELL, MICHAEL, Woburn 1642. Yaltf College
has four of the name of Leffingwell on its catalogue. THOMAS,
Saybrook 1637, was one of the original purchasers of the town of
Norwich, from Uncas and his two sons, Owaneco and Attawanhood
in 1659. Pease and Niles. Gazetteer of Conn.
LEGAT, JOHN, Exeter 1646. Thomas Legate, esq. was a
member of the first provincial congress of Mass. 1774. Boston Mag.
i. 606.
LEGGE, JOHN, was bom a. 1610, freeman 1635, Marblehead
1648. A John Legge was admitted freeman 1680, and a John
Legge grad. at H. C. 1701.
LEIGH, THOMAS, Roxbury, d. 19 July, 1694.
LEIGHTON, THOMAS. (See Laighton and Layton.)
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LEISTER. LEVERID6E,
LEISTER, EDWARD, Plymouth 1620. Eliphalet Lester was
a fiaptist minister at Saybrook, a few years since.
LELAND, HENRY, Medfield, had sons, Hopestill, born 1655;
Ebenezer, b. 1657, and Eleazar, b. 1660.
LEMMON, ROBERT, Salem 1637, was admitted to the church,
7 Feb. 1641, and probably freeman in 1642, instead of Robert
LocHnan, which doubtless should be Lemmon. Dr. Joseph Lemmon,
of Marblehead, grad. at H. C. 1735.
LEONARD, HENRY, Lynn, was admitted freeman 1668.
JAMES, Raynham, Massachusetts, with his brother Henry, set up
a forge iron manufacture there. [Fobes, in 1 Coll. Mass. Hist.
Soc. iii. 170.] His son Thomas was a judge and d. in 1713, being
grandfather of Hon. George Leonard, LL. D. who grad. at H. C.
1748, and d. in 1819, s. 90. Twenty-eight of this name had grad.
at the N. E. colleges in 1826, of whom, at Harvard, have been
Rev. Nathaniel Leonard, of Plymouth, 1719, Rev. Abiel Leonard,
D. D., of Woodstock, 1759, Hon. Daniel Leonard, chief justice of
the superior court of Bermuda, 1760, and several others. JOHN,
Springfield 1639. Josiah and Abel Leonard of Springfield died in
1688 and 1690. SOLOMON, was one of the proprietors of Bridge-
water in 1645.
LETHERMORE, JOHN, Massachusetts, freeman 1635. Sav-
age, ii. Winthrop.
LETTICE, THOMAS, Plymouth 1638. Davis, Morton's Me-
mo. 384.
LETTIN, RICHARD, Concord before 1650. Shattuck.
LEVENS, JOHN, Roxbury, freeman 1634, whose 1st wife died
10 Oct. 1638, had sons, John, b. 1640 ; Peter and Caleb, (twins)
b. 1644.
LEVERETT, ||HUDSON, Boston, son of the following, was
born in 1640, was member of the ar. co. in 1656. Hon. John, the
8th president of H. C. was his son. §Jt||»JOHN, son of Elder
Thomas Leverett, came with his father to N. E. ; was admitted
freeman 1640 ; member of the ar. co. 1639 ; its captain in 1654 ;
representative 1651 to 1653, 1663, and 1664, 5 years ; speaker of
the house 1663 and 1664 ; major-general 1664 ; assistant 1665 to
1670, 6 years; deputy-governour 1671 and 1672; governour 1673
to 1678, 6 years ; received the order of Knighthood from Charles
11 in 1676; d. 16 March, 1679. Church, in his Memoirs of Phil-
ip's war, makes Governour Leverett to have died in 1676, which is
evidently a mistake for the death of Governour Winthrop, of Conn,
who d. at Boston, 5 April, 1676. THOMAS, Boston, was admit-
ted member of the church in Oct. 1633, was its ruling elder a
number of years. He was admitted freeman, 4 March, 1634.
Savage, i. Winthrop, 114.
LEVERIDGE, WILLIAM, came toN. E. in the ship James,
and arrived at Salem, 10 Oct. 1633 ; went to Dover, and preached
there until 1635, when he seems to have been in Boston, being
admitted a member of the church there 9 August that year.
He was in Sandwich in 1640, and in 1657 was employed as a mist-
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LEVERIDGE. LEWIS.
flionary by the commissioners of the united colonies. He aocom-
pained the first settlers of Huntington, L. I., where he remained
until 1670, when he removed to Newtown, on the same island, and
d. there. Hon. Silas Wood informs me that some of his poc^rity
reside at Newtown, and are among the most respectable people of
that town.
LEWIS, EDMUND, freeman 1636, one of the first settlers of
Watertown, where his sons, James and Nathaniel, were born ; re*
moved to Lynn, a. 1640, where he d. in 1651. His wife was Mary,
and his children were, John, Thomas, James, Nathaniel, and two
others, whose descendants are numerous, some of them still remain*
ing at Lynn. Thirty-eight persons of this name had been educated
at the various colleges in N. E. in 1626. GEORGE, Scituate 1636,
eame from East-Greenwich, in Kent, England, and was admitted a
member of the church in Plymouth ; dismissed 23 Nov. 1634, and
settled in Scituate, firom whence he removed to Barnstable, and was
killed by the Indians at Blackstone's farm, 26 March, 1676. His
wife was Sarah Jenkins, whom he m. in England, and his children
were, 1. George ; 2. Thomas; 3. Edward ; 4. James, who m. Sarah
Lane, and had 10 children, of whom John, the eldest, was b. 29
Sept. 1656, m. Hannah Lincoln, of Hingham, where he resided,
and had 9 children, the 2d of whom was Rev. Daniel Lewis, of
Pembroke, Mass., b. 29 Sept. 1685, grad. at H. C. 1707, ordained
8 Dec. 1712, d. 29 June, 1753, ». 68 , 5. John ; 6. Jabez ; 7. Ma-
ry ; 8. Sarah. Daniel Lewis, H. 0. 1734, was son of Rev. DanieL
Hon. John Lewis, of North-Yarmouth, Me. a senator of Mass. was
■on to a brother of Rev. Daniel, and d. 4 March, 1803, sb. 85.
A. Lewis, MS Letter. GEORGE, Casco-Bay 1658, and probably
1676. Hubbard, Eastern Ind. Wars, 33. JOHN, Casco-Bay 1 665,
Hutch. Coll. 398. JOHN, Scituate 1637. 2 Coll. Mass. Hist
Soc. iv. 239. JOHN, Lynn 1640, freeman 1646, had one son, John,
whose descendants reside in Lynn. Lewis. JOHN, Boston
1687, had 3 children, John, b. 12 Sept. 1638 ; Samuel, b. 24 June,
1641 ; Elizabeth, b. 10 Sept. 1642. Ibid. JOHN, Roxbury, had
Peter and Andrew, (twins) born 11 Sept. 1644 Ibid. He proba-
bly d. 16 Nov. 1647. Roxbury records. JOHN, Charlestown
1688, probably d. at Maiden, in Sept. 1657. He had sons, John,
b. 1638 ; Samuel, b. 1641. Perhaps he was the John of Boston.
*PHILIP, of Portsmouth, that part which is now Greenland,
1665, was one of the first representatives in the N. H. assembly
under the provincial government, 1680. ROBERT, Salem, remov-
ed to Newbury, and d. 4 May, 1643. Felt. Coffin. THOMAS,
Dorchester 1636. Dr. Harris. THOMAS, New-Hampshire 163-.
[Belknap, i. Hist. N. H. 20.1 Perhaps the same who was at Saco
in 1636, is styled gent, and died a. 1640. WILLIAM, a proprietor
of Cambridge, was brother of Edmund, came fi-om England 1630,
and was admitted freeman 6 November 1632. He returned to En*
fland where he married ; came over again and settled at Roxbury.
[e had five children, 1. John, b. 1 Nov. 1635 ; 2. Christopher, b.
1636; 3. Lydia, b. 25 Dec. 1639 ; 4. Josiah, b. 28 July, 1641 ; 5.
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Isaac, born 15 April, 1644, m. Mary, lived in Boston ; d. there, §
April 1693, having had five children, of whom Isaac, the eldest son,
b. 31 Aug. 1683, m. Hannah Hallet, and had 8 children b. in Boston.
Nathan, the 7th child, b. 6 Dec. 1721, was grandfather to Alonzo
Lewis, the poet and historian of Lynn. There was a William Lew*
is, a proprietor of Lancaster 1654, who died there, 3 Dec. 1671.
John Lewis was also an early proprietor there. *WILLIAM, was
representative of Hadley in 1662, and of Northampton in 1664.
LIDGET, IICHARLES, Boston, member of ar. co. 1679. PE*
TER, Boston, admitted freeman 1673. He or the preceding, was
the Colonel Lidget named by Hutchinson, i. Hist. Mass. 334.
Judge Sewall mentions in his diary the death of a Mr. Lidget, 26
April, 1675.
LIGHTFOOT, FRANCIS, came from London and setUed st
Lynn ; freeman 1636, d. 1646.
LINCOLN, ROBERT, Boston, d. 6 May, 1663. Records.
SAMUEL, came from Hingham, in England, 1637 ; lived a short
time at Salem, and removed to Hingham, Mass. His children were,
Samuel ; Daniel, b. 1652 ; Mordecai, b. 1657 ; Mary ; Thomas ;
Martha; Sarah; Rebecca.. The Hon. Levi Lincoln, lieutenant-
governour of Massachusetts, was a descendant from this family\
Lincoln, Hist. Hingham, 126, 148. STEPHEN, Hingham, came
from Windham, in England, and arrived in this country in 1638,
with his wife, and son Stephen, who had but one son and three
grandsons, viz. : Stephen, (a bachelor) David, and James. David
had sons, David, Matthew, and Isaac. Isaac grad. at H. C. 1722,
and had sons, Isaac, James, Nathaniel, and Heman. The second
David d. 1 Feb. 1814, se. 79. He was father of Rev. Perez Lin*
coin of Gloucester, who d. 20 June, 1811. Ibid. 151. THOMAS,
a weaver, brother of Samuel, came from Hingham, England, in
1633, and settled at Hingham, Mass. a. 1636. His 1st wife was
Susanna, who d. 1641 ; his 2d, whom he m. 1663, was Mary Chnb^
buck. He d. 2 Sept. 1675, leaving no issue. Ibid. 148. THO-
MAS, a cooper, of Hingham 1636, may be the one admitted free^
man in 1637. He had a son Benjamin, admitted freeman 1677,
and a grandson Benjamin, who was father to Col. Benjamin Lincoln,
whose son Benjamin was the celebrated revolutionary general, who
d. 9 May, 1810. Bela Lincoln, H. C. 1754, and M. D. at Aberdeen,
was brother of the general. Benjamin and Theodore Lincoln, H.
C. 1777 and 1785, were sons of the general. Benjamin married &
daughter of James Otis, and d. 18 Jan. 1788, s. 32, leaving two
sons, Benjamin, H. C. 1806, who d. at Demarara, and James Otis,
H. C. 1807, who d. at Hingham, 12 Aug. 1818. Ibid. THO-
MAS, a husbandman, settled in Hingham as early as 1638. Ibid.
THOMAS, Hingham 1636, was a miller, removed to Taunton be-
fore 1652 ; was living in 1683 at the age of 80 years. Of the four
persons of the name of Thomas Lincoln, above, two were admitted
freett»»9 in 1637 and 1642^ but it is not easy to designate then.
Twenty-two persons of the name had graduated in N. E. in 1836,
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LINDALL. LIVERMORE.
^.1 \ . I..I — MM ,,.,,.. „ ■ IIII..I.I.I ■ • i '
aniong whom may be found divines, lawyers, physicians, and states-
men, who may trace to the above as their common ancestors. Ibid.
LINDALL, JAMES, Duxbury, was one of the proprietors of
Bridgewater in 1645. ♦TIMOTHY, son of the preceding was b.
in Duxbury ; admitted freeman 1678, settled in Salem, which he
represented in 1692, and probably afterwards. He d. 6 Jan. 1699,
e. 58. His wife, Mary Veren, he m. in 1672 and had 9 children,
of whom Timothy was baptized 4 Nov. 1677, grad. at H. C. 1695,
was representative of Salem, speaker of the house, counsellor, judge
of the court of common pleas, and d. 1760, se. 83.
LINDON, AUGUSTINE, Boston 1652. Savage, MS note.
JOHN, New-Haven, d. 1667.
LINDSAY, CHRISTOPHER, Lynn, d. 1668, leaving sons John
and Eleazar. Lewis.
LINE, THOMAS. (See Lynde.)
LINGE, BENJAMIN, New-Haven 1651, a first settler at Stony
River, d. 27 April 1673, died without issue, and his widow m. Gol.
John Dixwell.
LINNET, ROBERT, Scituate 1639, removed to Barnstable.
LINTON, RICHARD, came over as early as 1630, and settled
at Watertown ; was one of the first settlers of Lancaster, and d. 30
March, 1665. Willard, Hist. Lancaster, 27.
LIPPINCOT, RICHARD, Boston, freeman 1640, had a son
John, b. in 1644.
LISLE, THOMAS, a barber-surgeon of Boston. (See Lyall.)
. LITCHFIELD, LAWRENCE, Scituate 1646. There was a
Litchfield whose christian name is not given, who was a member
of the ar. co. in 1640. Rev. Joseph Litchfield, a grad. of Brown
University 1773, d. at Kittery, 28 Jan. 1828, ae. 78. Rev. Paul
Litchfield, H. C. 1775, d. at Carlisle, Mass. 5 Nov. 1827, ae. 76.
LITTLE, GEORGE, Newbury 1640, a tailor, came fi-om Uni-
corn-street, in London. His 1st wife was Alice Poor. His chil-
dren were, Joseph, b. 22 Sept. 1653 ; John, b. 28 July 1655 ;
Moses, born 11 March 1657 ; Sarah, born 1661. His 2d wife was
Eleanor Barnard. Descendants are numerous, and some of them
have been distinguished in publick and private life. He was the
first of Baptist sentiments in Newbury. Coffin. THOMAS, Plym-
outh 1644, removed to Marshfield. 2 Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. iii.
184. Rev. Ephraim Little, 1695, minister of Plymouth, and Tho-
mas, H. C. 1695, were probably descendants.
LITTLEFIELD, ♦FRANCIS, Wells, representative 1660.
JOHN, was admitted freeman in 1671.
LITTLEHALE, RICHARD, Newbury 1638, thence to Havei^
hill, where he d. 18 Feb. 1684. ,
LIVERMORE, JOHN, Watertown as early as 1642, was the
great ancestor of Matthew Livermore, esq., b. at Watertown, 14
Jan. 1703, grad. H. C. 1722, d. at Portsmouth, 14 Feb. 1776, and
probably of the Hon. Samuel Livermore, Nassau 1752, a senator in
congress from N. H. 8 years from 1793, ju(lge of the superiour
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LIVERMORE. LONGHORN.
eoart from 1782 to 1790, and several years its chief justice, two of
whose sons, Edward St. Loe LiTermore and Arthur Livermore have
been judges of the same court, and the latter, chief justice, and
also representative in congress, 6 years. A Samuel Livermore was
admitted freeman in 1671. Ten persons of the name had grad. at
the N. £. and Princeton colleges in 1826.
LLOYD, JAMES, came from Somersetshire, a. 1670, resided a
short time at Rhode-Island, but finally settled at Boston, where he
d. in July, 1693. His son Henry, who lived at dueen's county, L*
I., was father of James Lloyd, a celebrated physician of Boston,
whose son, Hon. James Lloyd, H. C. 1787, has been distinguished
as a statesman and member of the U. S. Senate.
LOBDELL, ISAAC, freeman 1673. JOHN, freeman 1673.
LOCKE, WILLIAM, Woburn 1659. Rev. Samuel Locke, D.
D., minister of Sherburne, Mass., was a native of Lancaster, and
grad. in 1775 at H. C, of which he was president from 1770 to
1773.
LOCKWOOD, EDMUND, freeman 18 May, 1631, was of Cam-
bridge in 1632, and probably removed to Connecticut with Messrs.
Hooker and Stone. Rev. Samuel Lockwood, D. D., of Andover,
Conn., who grad. Y. C. 1745, and d. 18 June, 1791, might be a
descendant of him or the following. Seven others of the name
had grad. at Yale in 1826. ROBERT, Watertown 1634, had sons,
Jonathan, b. 1634 ; Joshua, b. 1638 ; Daniel, b. 1640 ; Ephraim,
b. 1641 ; Gershom, b. 1643.
LOMBARD, BERNARD, Scituate 1633, freeman 1634, remov-
ed from thence to Barnstable. Solomon Lombard, H. C. 1723,
minister of Gorham, Me., was a native of Truro, and probably his
descendant. THOMAS, Massachusetts, whose name as well as
the preceding, is frequently spelled Lumbert, was admitted freeman
in 1631.
LONG, JOSHUA, said by Mr. W. Winthrop to have been of
Charlestown, grad. at H. C. in 1653. PHILIP, Ipswich 1648,
had a son Joseph, b. in Boston in 1652. ROBERT, Plymouth
1623, Davis, Morton's Memo. ROBERT, Charlestown, was admit-
ted freeman in 1635, and perhaps was the father of Joshua above.
ROBERT, seaman, probably the freeman in 1636, settled in New-
bury, was deacon of the church, and died of the small pox, 27 Dec.
1690. Alice, his wife, d. 17 Jan. 1691. He had several children.
Coffin. SAMUEL, Ipswich 1648.
LONGFELLOW, WILLIAM, Newbury, was born a. 1653, m.
Anne, a daughter of Henry Sewall, 10 Nov. 1678, and according
to Mr. Coffin was drowned at Cape Breton in 1690. His son Ste-
phen was b. at Newbury, 10 Jan. 1682, and bad a son Stephen, b.
at Newbury, 7 Feb. 1723, grad. at H. C. 1742, moved to Portland
1745, where he was a schoolmaster, town clerk from 1750 to 1772;
register of probate from 1761 to 1776, and clerk of the court. He
d. 1 May, 1790, ffi. 67.
LONGHORN, THOMAS. (See Lanohornb.)
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LONGLEY, RICHARD, Lynn 1640, had sons Willima and
Jonathan. Lewis. WILLIAM, son of the preceding (perhi^
the freeman under 1638, named Langhy) was clerk of tl^ writs
in Lynn 1655. It is believed he went to Groton, and there d. 29
Nov. 1680.
LOOKER, HENRY, Sudbury, was admitted freeman in 1643.
JOHN, Sudbury, freeman 1646, d. 18 June, 1653.
LOOMAN, ROBERT, [Savage, ii. Winthrq[i 373] should be
Lemmon, which see.
LOOMIS, JOHN and JOSEPH, Windsor 1640. Samuel and
William Loomis were of Westfield in 1685.
LORD, JOHN, Watertown, d. 23 April, 1669. NATHANIEL,
Kittery, freeman 1652, was probably father of captain Samuel Lord,
mentioned in Sullivan's Hist, of Maine, and the ancestor of many
families of the name in that State. The late Hon. John Lord, of
South-Berwick, was a descendant, whose son Rev. Nathan Lord,
D. D. a graduate at Bowd. college, 1809, and the minister of Am-
herst, N. H. from 22 May, 1816 to Oct. 1828, is the president of
Dartmouth college. RICHARD, Cambridge 1632, freeman 1635,
removed with the emigrants from that town to Com^cliicwt, where
the name of Lord has existed from ks earliest settlement. Of the
24 persons of this name who had grad. in N. £. in 1826, 18 were
educated at Yale college. Rev. Benjamin Lord, D. D. for 60 years
the minister of Norwich, grad. there in 17 14, and d. in Apvil, 1784)
8B. 90. ♦ROBERT, Ipswich, was born a. 1612, admitted freeman
1636, wiis elected representative 1638, was clerk of probate, mar-
shal, town clerk, and reccvder of deeds. [Coffin.] He had a son
RoWt, born a. 1634, who was probably the one who d. 1 1 Nov.
1696. Catharine Lord, a widow, had a grant of land in Ipswich in
1641. ROBERT, of Boston in 1651, probably d. in Charlestown,
13 July, 1678. Two Joseph Lords d. in Charlestown in 1678 and
1679, and Joseph Lord, from that town grad. at H. C. in 1691, and
was minister of Charlestown, S. C. Joseph Lord, his son, grad. at
H. C. 1726, was a preacher and physician, and d. at Westmoreland,
N. H. 1789, ». 86, leaving descendants, of whom is Hon. Jotham
Lord, late a member of the council of N. H., who k a grandson.
WILLIAM, a cutler by profession, was admitted member of the
church in Salem, 18 Aug. 1639, freeman 6th Sept. fi^lowiag, and
was sworn constable of Salem, 14 Sept. 1640. He d. 14 Jan. 1673,
aged a. 89. Felt, Annals, 242.
LORING, THOMAS, Hingham, freeman 1636. Savage, ii.
Winthrop, 255. Lincoln, Hist. Hingham, 43. Benjamin, John
and Thomas Loring were admitted freeman in 1673. Fifteen of the
name had grad. at the N. £. colleges in 1 826.
LOTHROP, (BARNABAS, son of the following, was b. at
Scitimte in 1636, and settled in BarnstaUe. He m. Susanna Clark
m 1658. He was an assistant of Plymouth, and one of the &st
counsellors of Massachusetts after its union with Plymouth under
the charter of Wdiiam and M«ry 1692. tia d. at Baamitabler in
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LOTHROP. LOW.
1715, 8. 79. JOHN, the first minister of Seituate and BarnstaUay
was educated at Oxford, and was a clergyman in Kent county and
in London, arrived at Plymouth from England in 1634, and 80<»i
settled at Scituate, from whence he removed, 11 Oct. 1639, to Barn«
stable, and d. 8 Not. 1653. His sons were, Thomas, who settled
in Barnstable ; Samuel, in New-London 1648 ; Joseph, in Barnsta*
ble ; Benjamin, in Charlestown ; Barnabas and John, both at Barn-
stable. Of his daughters were Jane and Barbara. Many of Rey.
John Lothrop's descendants have written the name Lathrop, of
whom there appear 15 on the catalogues of the different N. E. col-
leges, whose names have this orthography. The true spelling of
the name of the minister, as written by himself, appears to be Loth*
ropp. See 2 Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. i. 173. ||*THOMAS, Salem,
freeman 1634, member of the ar. co. 1645, representative 1647,
1653, and 1664, was one of the founders of the church in Beverly
1667, refMresentative of Beverly 1672 to 1675, 4 years ; was many
years captain, and sustained that office in Philip's war, when with
more than 60 of his men he was killed in battle, near Deerfield,
18 Septw 1675. Increase Mather calls him ** a godly and coura-
geous commander." He left a widow, Bethiah, but no children.
LOUDER, RICHARD, Charlestown 1641, had sons John and
Jeremy.
LOVE, JOHN, Boston, d. 1 Dec. 1653, JOHN was appointed
one of the mandamus counsellors of N. H. as early as 1692. Belk-
nap.
LOVEJOY, JOHN, Andover, freeman 1673, d. Nov. 1690, hav-
ing had 5 sons, who settled in Andover, viz : John ; William, who
d. 1748, ©. 91 ; Christopher, who d. 1737, m. 78 ; Joseph, who d.
1737, aged 76 ; Nathaniel, who d. 1758, aged 84 ; Ebenezer, who
d. 1759, se. 86. Abbot, Hist. Andover, 27.
LOVELAND, ROBERT, Massachusetts 1645. Savage, ii.
Winthrqp, 262.
LOVELL, ROBERT, was admitted freeman 1635. THOMAS,
Ipswich in 1665. Hutchinson [i. Hist. Mass. 385] memtions a
Captain Lovell without date or residence. This name in N. E. has
furnished 10 graduates at the N. E. colleges, 7 of whom grad. at
H C. John Lovell, H. C. 1728, was the celebrated master of the
South Grammar School in Boston. He d. at Halifax in 1778.
WILLIAM, Dorchester 1635. Winthrop, i. Hist. N. E. 174.
LOVERING, JOHN, freeman 1636, might be the same who liv-
ed at Dover in 1665.
LOVETT, DANIEL, Braintree, had a son James, b. in 1648,
and daughters Martha, Mary, and Hannah. JOHN, Mendon, d.
26 July, 1668. JOHN, sen. of Beverly, d. 5 Nov, 1686, ©. 76.
LOW, ANDREW, was an inhabitant of New-Haven in 1639.
JOHN, Boston 1637. Snow, Hist. Boston, 60. JOHN, Sudbury
1641. THOMAS, Ipswich 1644, probably that part now Essex,
died 8 Sept. 1677, leaving sons, Thomas and John, and several
daughters. Among his descendants iare the late William Low,
representative of Amherst, who d. in 1826, aged 74, his brother dea-
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LOW. LUMBERT.
con John Low, of Beverly, who d. 18 March, 1839, s. 74, [of whom
is a biographical memoir in Boston recorder of 28 May 1829] Gen.
Solomon Low, of Boxford, Ms., and Joseph Low, esq. of Concord,
the adjutant and inspector general of N. H..
LOWDEN, AUGUSTINE, freeman 1660. JOHN, Charles-
town, freeman 1668.
LOWELL, or LOWLE, JOHN, Newbury, freeman 1641, was son
of Percival Lowie, and d. 10 July, 1647. His children were Joseph,
b. 28 Nov. 1639; Benjamin, b. 12 Sept. 1642; Thomas, b. 4 June,
1644 ; Elizabeth, b. 1646, m. Philip Nelson of Rowley. Coffin.
JOHN, Boston, 1655, who probably d. 7 June, 1694, had a son John,
b. 26 Aug. 1655. JOHN, Weymouth 1658, had a son John, b. in
1658. PERCIVAL, a merchant, came from Bristol, England, with
his sons, Richard and John, also merchants, and settled at Newbury,
where he d. 8 Jan. 1665. Coffin. RICHARD, son of thepreced-
ing, was b. a. 1602, and lived in Newbury, and d. 5 August, 1682.
WILLIAM, Massachusetts, was admitted freeman 1642.
LUCE, THOMAS, Charlestown, had a son Samuel, b. there in
1644. This name is very common at Martha's Vineyard.
LUCKIS, WILLIAM, Marblehead 1648. Dana, Hist. Discourse.
LUDDEN, JAMES, Weymouth 1636,
LUDDINGTON, WILLIAM, Charlestown 1642, removed to
New-Haven, and d. 1662. He had William; Henry, who d. in
1676 ; Hannah ; John, and Thomas. See an account of his des-
cendants in Dodd's East-Haven Register, 132 — 134.
LUDKIN, GEORGE, came from Norwich in England, and set-
tled at Hingham 1635 ; admitted freeman 1636, removed to Brain-
tree, and d. there 22 Feb. 1648. ||WILLIAM, Hingham 1637,
freeman 1638, member of the ar. co. 1651, was drowned near Bos-
ton, 27 March, 1652.
LUDLOW, ftROGER, Dorchester, came to N. E. in 1630, was
an assistant 4 years, until 1634, when he was elected deputy-gov*
ernour. He removed with the first emigrants to Windsor, where
he was an assistant in 1636, and was also deputy-go vernour ; remov-
ed to Fairfield, in 1639, and in 1654, went to Virginia, where he is
supposed to have died. The first code of laws of the colony of
Connecticut was compiled by him. WILLIAM, Connecticut, of
which colony he was an assistant from 1640, probably several years.
Mather, i. Magnalia. Descendants of one or both of the above
probably remain, as the catalogues of New-Jersey and Schenectady
colleges contained in 1826, seven persons of the name of Ludlow.
LUFF, JOHN, a weaver, was of Salem in 1637.
LUFKIN, HUGH, Salem 1654.
LUIN, HENRY, Boston 1636, had a son Ephraim, b. 1639.
LUKAR, MARK, was one of the founders of the first Baptist
church in Newport, R. I. 1644. ||[ ] member of the ar. co.
1640.
LUKER, HENRY, Sudbury. (See Looker.)
LUMBARD, JOHN, Springfield, d. 15 May, 1672.
LUMBERT, BERNARD. (See Lombard.)
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LUMKINS. LYMAN.
LUMKINS, *RICHARD, Ii>8wich, was admitted freeman in
1638, and representative the same year. Of the name of Lumkin,
two had grad. in N. E. in 1827.
LUMMUS, EDWARD, formerly written Lamas and Lumax,
came from Wales and settled in Ipswich as early as 1648. He had
4 sons, Jonathan, who lived in Ipswich ; Edward, who settled in
New-Jersey ; Samuel, in Hamilton, and Nathaniel, in Dover. Life
of Aaron Lummus, p. 6.
LUNT, HENRY, Newbury, freeman 1638, d. 10 July, 1662.
His children were, Sarah ; Daniel, b. 1641 ; John, b. 1643, d. 1678;
Priscilla ; Mary ; Elizabeth ; Henry, b. 1652. His widow, Anne»
m. Joseph Hills in 1665.
LUSHER, *|ELEAZAR, Dedham, freeman 1638, was elected
representative 1640, 12 years, assistant from 1662 to 1672, 11 years;
was the captain of a military band in 1644, and aflerwards major.
He d. 13 Nov. 1672. Johnson [Hist. N. E. 192] describes him as
" one of a nimble and active spirit, and strongly affected to the way
of the truth.'* Worthington [Hist. Dedham, 50] says the following
couplet was repeated by the generation which immediately succeed-
ed Major Lusher.
" When Lusher was in office, all things went well,
" But how they go since, it shames us to tell.*'
There was a Samuel Lusher of Dedham, who d. 28 Dec. 1638.
L UTHER^ SAMUEL, the second Baptist minister of Swanzey,
Mass. was ordained 1685, d. in 1717. His posterity are numerous
in that vicinity. Benedict, i. Hist. Baptists, 426.
LUXFORD, REUBEN, Massachusetts, was admitted freeman
in 1634, and another Reuben Luxford was admitted freeman in
1674. This name was in Lancaster in 1668.
LYALL, IIFRANCIS, Boston 1638, was member of the ar. co.
1640. His son Joseph was b. in 1642, member ar. co. 1668. Prob-
ably the same with Francis Lisle, a barber-surgeon, [see Snow's
Hist. Boston, 118] who Mr. Savage says, went to England and serv-
ed in the Parliament's army.
LYE, ROBERT, Lynn 1638. Descendants remain. Lewis.
LYFORD, JOHN, came to N. E. in 1624, preached at Plym-
outh, from whence he went to Nantasket, [Hull] and from thence
to Cape Ann in 1625. For mutinous conduct he was banished
from Plymouth colony. He sailed in 1627, with some of his people
to Virginia, and d. soon after his arrival there. Prince, i. Annals,
148, 152, 154, 169. The name of Lyford exists in New-Hampshire,
where are two magistrates bearing it. MORDICAI, was of Hing-
ham in 1642.
LYMAN, RICHARD, was of Massachusetts, and was admitted
freeman in 1633. He might be &ther to the three brothers, Rich-
ard, John, and Robert Lyman, who were among the first settlers of
Northampton, where the name has continued with reputation to the
present time. Robert Lyman was admitted freeman in, 1682.
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LYNDE. MAIEft
Thirty-nine penona of the name had grad. at the N. E. colleges in
1826, the jnreater part of whom were Vacated at Yale College.
LYNDE, IIJ* JOSEPH, son of Thomas Lynde, was h. at Charles-
town, 3 June, 1636, admitted freeman 1671, represented Charles-
town in 1674, 1679, and 1680; member of the ar. oo. 1681 ; one of
the committee of safety 1689; and oounseUor under the charter of
William and Mary 1692. Of the 12 persons of the name of Lynde,
who had grad. in N. £. in 1826, the most distinguished were the
Hon. Benjamin Lynde, H. C. 1686, chief justice of the superiw
eourt of Massachusetts, who d. 28 Jan. 1743, s. 79, and his son,
[Lord, ii. Lempriere's Univ. Biog. 245] Hon. Benjamin Lynde, who
grad. at H. C. 1718, and filled the same office with his fath^.
IJSIMON, member of thear. co. 1658, m. Hannah, daughter of John
Newgate, and had 9 sons and 2 daughters. *THOMAS, Charles-
town, freeman 1635, was elected representative 1636, 1637, 1645,
and 1657, was perhaps the deacon of Charlestown, who d. 30 Dec.
1676. Ancient records name Thomas, Joseph, Hannah, and Sarah
as children of Thomas Lynde. THOMAS, Charlestown, freeman
1645, was probably father of the Thomas Lynde, b. in 1647.
LYNN, HENRY, Boston 1631, came to N. E. in 1630. Savage,
i. Winthrop, 61.
LYON, GEORGE, freeman 1669. JOHN, Marblehead 1648.
PETER, Massachusetts, was admitted freeman 1649. RICHARD,
was the coadjutor of President Dunster in improving the New-En-
gland version of the Psalms. || WILLIAM, Rcabury, member of the
ar. CO. 1645, freeman 1666, d. in 1692. His son Joseph was b.
1654. WILLIAM, Roxbury, d. there in 1714.
LYSCOM, ([HUMPHREY, member of the ar. co. 1678.
LYTHERLAND, WILLIAM, Boston, was livmg in 1684, at the
age of 74. Shaw, Hist. Boston, 32.
MACCARTY, ||THADDEUS, Roxbury, member of the ar. co.
1681. Thomas Maccarty grad. at H. C. and died before 1699. Rev.
Thaddeus Maccarty, H. C. 1739, was minister of Worcester.
MACLOAD, MORDECAI, Lancaster 1658, was killed with his
wife and two children, 22 August, 1675, by the Indians. Willard,
Hist. Lancaster, 96, 28.
MACY, *THOMAS, admitted freeman 1639, resided in New-
bury, from thence to Salisbury, which he represented in 1654 ; re-
moved to Nantucket in 1659, and was one of the first settlers.
Holmes, i. Annals, 313.
MADDOX, JAMES, came from Bristol, En^and, and settled
early in Newbury. JOHN, brother of James, lived in Lynn and
Salem, whence he went to Newbury, and there died a. 1644.
MADER, ROBERT, Massachusetts, freeman 4643.
MAGOON, JOHN, Scituate 1657. 2 Coll, Mass. Hist. Soc. iv.
341. This name is in New-Hampshire.
MAIES, DANIEL, Massachusetts, freeman 1660. Those under
this name have their surname variously written in old records.
JOHN, Roxbury, was admitted freeman 1641, d. 28 April, 1670.
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MAIN. MAPES.
John May or Mayo, sen., d. at Roxbary. 38 April, 1686, and a Jk^n
May or Males was admitted freeman 1660.
MAIN, JOHN, Boston, d. 27 March, 1699. Rev Amos Mam,
H. C. 1729, was minister of Rochester, N. H.
MAJOR, JOHN, Boston, d. 15 July, 1692.
MAKEPEACE, ||THOMAS, was a member of the ar. co. 1639.
Hutchinson, i. Hist. Mass. 98. Savage, i. Winthrop, 289.
MAKOON, JOHN, was of Cambridge in 1663, perhaps Magoon,
above.
MALBON, |:RICHARD, was an assistant of New-Haven colony
in 1637. Winthrop, ii. Hist. N. E. 95. Thomas Malbone grad.
at H. C. 1752.
MALLARD, ||THOMAS, member of the ar. co. 1685.
MALLORY, PETER, New-Haven 1644, had sons Peter, b. 1653.
Thomas, b. 1659 ; Daniel ; John ; Joseph, two Samuels, and Wil-
liam. Dodd, East-Haven Register, 134, 135.
MANLEY, RALPH, Charlestown, d. in Sept. 1630. There
was a John Manley of Braintree, at an early period.
MAN, SAMUEL, minister of Wrentham, grad. at H. C. 1665,
admiUed freeman 1679 ; ordained 13 April, 1692 ; d. 22 May, 1719,
©.72. RICHARD, Scituate 1646,
MANN, WILLIAM, Providence 1641.
MANNING, II JOHN, Boston, was member of the ar. co. 1640;
ensign of the same in 1648. He had sons, John, b. 1643 ; Ephraim,
b. 1655. There was a John Manning of Ipswich as early as 1640 ;
and a John Manning was sheriff of Yorkshire, L. I. in 1672. The
name in the 14th century was written Mannyng ; the Rev. William
Mannyng being the minister of Charlecote, in Warwickshire, A. D.
1878. THOMAS, was an inhabitant of Ipswich in 1636, and d. a.
1668, 8B. 74. WILLIAM, Cambridge, was admitted freeman 1640.
Susanna his wife, d. 16 Oct. 1650. WILLIAM, Cambridge, free*
man 1643, was probably the person, sent a. 1670, as a messenger
to -England to invite Urian Oakes to come to N. £. and settled in
that place. See Holmes, Hist. Cambridge. His wife was Dorothy^
and his children were, Samuel, b. 21 July, 1644 ; John, b. 31 March,
1650 ; Hannah ; Sarah, and Mary. Samuel settled in Biilerica,
where he was representative in 1695 and 1696, and town clerk 6
years, and d. 22 Feb. 1711, ». 66.
MANSFIELD, ♦ANDREW, Lynn 1637, was town clerk in 1666,
represemative from 1680 to 1683. He had a son Andrew. The
first graduate of the name in N. E. was Samuel Mansfield, H. C.
1690. JOHN, Lynn, freemm 1643, was probably a proprietor of
Lancaster in 1654. ROBERT, Lynn 1642. ♦SAMUEL, SjM^ing-
£eld, representative 1680, 1683, and 1684. THOMAS, Lynn 1642.
MANTON, EDWARD, one of the first proprietors of Providence.
Coffin.
MANWARINO, [[NATHANIEL^ member of the ar. co. 1644.
David Maawaring grad. at Y. C. 1759.
MAPES, THOMAS, South-CNd, L. I. 1640. Wood, Hist. L.
Island, 34.
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MARBLE. MARSHALL.
MARBLE, JOHN, Boston 1646. WILLIAM, Charlestown,
was admitted freeman 1654 Joseph and Samuel Marble lived in
Andover, a. 1670.
MARCH, JOHN, Salem, admitted to the church, 12 May, 1639,
took the oath of freeman in 1642. HUGH, Newbury 1656, Was b.
a. 1622. He had a son HUGH, who was b. 1656.
MARCY, JOHN, Chalestown, d. 4 Oct. 1638. His son Johnd.
2 May, 1641. GEORGE, freeman 1666.
MARGESON, EDMUND, one of the Plymouth pilgrims, d. m
1621.
MARION, JOHN, Watertown 1643, freeman 1652, had sons,
John, 1>. 1643, Isaac, b. 1652 ; Samuel, b. 1655, member of the ar.
CO. 1691, and probably d. in Boston, 7 Jan, 1705, s. 86.
MARKHAM, NATHANIEL, Charlestown, d. 26 Sept. 1673.
DANIEL, freeman 1674.
MARKLEY, JOHN, Casco 1665. Hutchinson, Coll. of Papers,
MARRETT, JOHN, a proprietor of Watertown 1642, perhaps
freeman in 1665. THOMAS, Cambridge, freeman 1636, was a
deacon of the church there, had two sons, John, who d. in 1663,
and Thomas, both born in England. He d. 30 June, 1664. This
name is spelled Marryott in the colony records.
MARSH, ALEXANDER, Massachusetts, freeman 1654. Thir-
ty-three persons of this name had grad. at the N. E. colleges in 1826.
GEORGE, Hingham 1635. ONESIPHORUS, Hingham 1654,
freeman 1672. THOMAS, of Hingham, was admitted freeman
1654. JOHN, Charlestown, d. 1 Jan. 1666.
MARSHALL, CHRISTOPHER, was admitted freeman in 1635.
Calamy notices one of this name, who was partly educated under
Rev. John Cotton, and was the minister of Wood-Kirk in Yorkshire,
England, and d. in Feb. 1673, se. 59. EDMUND, Salem, admitted
to the church, 8 Jan. 1637, took the oath of freeman the same year.
He removed from Salem. JAMES, Windsor, 1640. JOHN, Bos-
ton, had sons, John, b. 1645 ; Thomas, b. 1656. There was a
John Manshall of Billerica in 1659. Samuel and John Marshall,
d. at BostOTi 1690 and 1694. ROBERT, Salem 1637. THOM-
AS, Boston, was a shoemaker and ferryman. His son Eliakim was
born in 1637. Snow, Hist. Boston, 79, 119. Savage, i. Winthrop,
248. ii. 213, 216. THOMAS, Boston, a tailor, was admitted to
the church in 1643, and perhaps freeman in 1644. Thomas Mar-
shall d. at Andover in Jan. 1708, ee. nearly 100. Joanna Marshall,
d. there in May, 1708, aged about 100. ||*THOMAS, Lynn 1634,
was a captain, and probably the member of the ar. co. in 1640, and
the freeman of 1641. He was representative 6 years, 1659 to 1668
excepting 1661, 1662, 1665, and 1666. He died 23 Dec. 1689.
Dunton [2 Coll Mass. Hist. Soc. ii. 1171 says that he was one of
Cromwell's soldiers. Rebecca, his wife, d. in August, 1693. He
had sons, John, who might have been at Billerica, and Thomas,
who was admitted freeman in 1653, and settled in Reading. Lewis.
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MARSHFIELD. MASON.
MARSHFIELD, SAMUEL, was a proprietor of Westiield in
1666, d. in Springfield in 1692.
MARRYOTT, NICHOLAS, Salem 1636, Marblehead 1648,
was born a. 1613. Coffin. THOMAS, Cambridge 1636. (See
Marrett^
MARSTON, JOHN, Salem, bom about 1616, admitted to the
ehuTch, 9 Aug. 1640, freeman 1641, had a son John, baptized 12
Sept. 1641, perhaps of Andover. ROBERT, spelled Marstin in
Hutchinson's Coll. of Papers, 255. THOMAS, Salem 1637 ; went
to Hampton ; admitted freeman 1641, and d. 1672. *THOMAS,
Hampton, was representative in 1677. WILLIAM, Salem 1637,
d. 30 June, 1672.
MARTIN, ABRAHAM, Hingham 1635. AMBROSE, Con-
cord 1638, had a son Joseph, b. in 1640. Savage, i. Winthrop, 289.
CHRISTOPHER, Plymouth, one of the first pilgrims, d. 8 Jan.
1621. Prince, i. Annals, 96. JOHN, Charlestown, was admitted
fireeman in 1640. JOHN, fi-eeman 1665. RICHARD, Casco
1666. Hutchinson Coll. 398. (See Martyn.) ROBERT, Mas-
sachusetts, freeman 1640. SOLOMON, Massachusetts, freeman
1652. THOMAS, Massachusetts, fi-eeman 1639. WILLIAM,
Groton, d. 26 March, 1672, ae. 76. WILLIAM, Reading, one of
the first selectmen, was admitted fi-eeman in 1653.
MARTYN, •{RICHARD, Portsmouth, one of the founders of
the first church 1671, representative in 1672 and 1679 ; counsellor
of the province of New-Hampshire 1680, speaker of the N. H. as-
sembly, d. in 1693. His children were, Richard, b. 10 Jan. 1660,
grad. at H. C. 1680, was sometime a preacher ; Michael, b. 3 Feb.
1667 ; John, b. 9 June 1668 ; Elias, b. 18 April, 1670, and daugh-
ters, Mary, Sarah, Elizabeth, and Hannah, born in 1655, 1657,
1662, and 1665.
MASON, ARTHUR, Boston 1656, was a constable, and is men-
tioned by Hutchinson, i. Hist. Mass. 232. Twenty-four persons of
the name of Mason had grad. in N. E. in 1826. EDMUND, was
a proprietor of Watertown in 1642. HENRY, Massachusetts,
freeman 1650. HENRY, Scituate 1650. ♦HUGH, Watertown,
freeman 1635, representative 1644 and 1645, 1660, 1661, 1664,
1672, 1674 to 1677, 10 years ; was a captain of the militia, and d.
10 Oct. 1678. His wife d. 21 May, 1692. Mr. Shattuck gives me
the names of his children, viz. : Hannah, b. 23 Sept. 1636, m.
Capt. Joshua Brooks, of Concord ; Mary, who m. Rev. Joseph Es-
tabrook ; John, b. 1 Jan. 1644, m. Hannah Ramsden, and settled
in Concord ; Joseph, b. 10 Aug. 1646, d. 22 July 1702 ; Daniel,
b. 19 Feb. 1649, who according to W. Winthrop, grad. at H. C. in
1666 ; and Sarah, b. 25 Sept. 1651. |t*JOHN, the distinguished
Pequot warrior, came early to N. E. and settled at Dorchester, which
he represented in 1635 and 1636, having been admitted a freeman
in 1^5. He removed with Mr. Warham to Windsor, in 1636, was
elected a magistrate from 1642 to 1659 ; removed to Saybrook 1647 ;
to Norwich in 1659 ; was elected deputy-govemour in 1660, and
the 9 succeeding years ; was major-general, and d* at Norwich in
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MASON. MATHER;
1672 or 1673, se. 72. He left three sons, Samuel, John, and Dan-
iel, whose posterity have ever remained in Connecticut, and are
spread over the country. Jeremiah Mason, LL. D., of Portsmouth,
is a descendant 1 Coll. Mass. Hist Soc. viii. 122—125. JOHN,
the proprietor of New-Hampshire, towards the settlement of which
he expended a considerable estate. He d. in England, 26 Nov.
1637, having never come to N. E. His only child, Jane, m. John
Tufton, esq., and had John, who d. without issue, and Robert, who
took the name of Mason. |ROBERT, grandson of the preceding,
was declared proprietor of New-Hampshire, by Charles II, 1677,
and by mandamus in 1680. .He was a counsellor in 1682, at which
time he resided in Portsmouth. He was named as one of Sir Ed-
mtind Andros' council, but died in 1686, leaving two sons, John
Tufton Mason, who d. in Virginia, without issue ; and Robert Tu^
ton Mason, who m. Catharine Wiggin, and was lost at sea in 1696,
leaving two children, John Tufton, who d. at Havanna in 1718, and
Elizabeth, who was living in 1738. The last John Tufton Mason
had two sons, John Tufton and Thomas Tufton. ROBERT,
Roxbury 1637. His wife d. that year. RALPH, Boston 1637,
had sons, Zuriel, [?] b. 1637 ; John, b. 1640 ; Jacob, born 1644.
ISAMUEL, Connecticut, son of Major-General John Mason, was
elected an assistant in 1683. {STEPHEN, Massachusetts, was
one of the first council under the charter of William and Mary,
1692. Douglas, Summary.
MASSEY, JEFFREY, Salem, one of the earliest members of
the church, was b. in England 1592 ; freeman 1634, d. 1677, aged
about 84. His son John, b. 1631, is said by Dr. Bentley to have
been the first male child born in Salem, but he probably mistakes.
See Felt's Annals, 256. The cradle in which he was rocked is in
the cabinet of the Mass. Historical Society.
MASTERS, JOHN, Watertown, was admiUed freeman in 1631;
was a proprietor, and perhaps a resident, at Cambridge. He d. 21
Dec. 1639, and his wife died five days after him. Prince, ii. Annals,
30, 31, 60. Savage, i. Winthrop, 69, 76, 81. Nicholas S. Mas-
ters, Y. C. 1779, Josiah Masters, Y. C. 1783, a member of Con-
gress, and W. Masters, of Vermont, are probably his descendants.
NATHANIEL, Beverly 1659.
MATHER, COTTON, minister of the North church in Bos-
ton» was son of Rev. Increase Mather, D. D., and was b. 12 Fel^.
1663; grad, at H. C. 1678, admitted freeman 1680, ordained a
colleague with his father, 13 May, 1685, and d. 13 Feb. 1728, s.
65. He m. (1) Abigail, daughter of Colonel John Philips; (2)
widow Elizabeth Hubbard, daughter of Dr. John Clark ; (3) widow
George, a daughter of Samuel Lee. By the 1st and 2d, he had 15
children, of whom Rev. Samuel Mather, D. D., b. 30 Oct. 1706^
grad. at H. C. 1723,. and was ordained as colleague with Rev. Josh**
ua Gee, of Boston, 21 June, 1732, and d. 27 June, 1785, m. 74
ELEAZAR, minister of Northampton, was son of Rev. Richard
Mather, and was b. at Dorchester, 13 May, 1637, grad. at H. C.
1656, ordained 23 June, 1661, and d. 24 Ji^ly, 1669, ». dS. His
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wife was daughter of Rev. John Warham, and hy her, who after-
wards m. Rev. Solomon Stoddard, he had an only daughter, who
became the wife of Rev. John Williams. INCREASE^ minister
of the North church in Boston, a brother of the preceding, was b.
at Dorchester, 21 June, 1639, grad. at H. O. 1656, ordained 27
May, 1669, appointed president of H. C. 1685, from which he re-
ceived the degree of D. D., resigned the presidency 1701, was an agent
in England for procuring a new charter, which he obtained in 1691
from King William and dueen Mary. He m. Maria, a daughter of
Rev. John Cotton. She d. in 1714. He d. 23 Aug. 1723, sb. 85.
His children were, 1. Maria; 2. Elizabeth, who m. Capt. Green-
ough and Mr. Byles ; 3. Sarah, who m. Rev. Mr. Walter, of Rox-
bury ; 4. Abigail, who m. Newcomb Blake and Rev. John White ;
5. Hannah ; 6. Jerusha ; 7. Cotton, already mentioned ; 8. Nathan-
iel, b. 6 July, 1669, grad. at H. C. 1685, d. 17 Oct. 1688 at Salem;
and Samuel, H. C. 1690. NA i'HANIEL, a minister in London,
was brother of the preceding, and was b. at Lancaster, England, 20
March, 1630, grad. at H. C. 1647, went to England, and was pre-
sented to a living at Barnstaple, by Oliver Cromwell in 1656, from
which he was ejected after the restoration. He d. in London, 26
July, 1697, ©. 67, having preached 47 years in England, Ireland,
and Holland. RICHARD, the third minister of Dorchester, was
son of Thomas and Margaret Mather, and was b. at Lowton, in the
parish of Winwick, in Lancashire, in 1596, was sometime a student
at Oxford, became a preacher, and came to N. E. in 1635, settled
over the church at Dorchester, 23 Aug. 1636, and d. 22 April, 1669,
SB. 73. He m. 29 Sept 1624, Catharine, daughter of Edmund Hoult.
She d. in 1655, and he m. Sarah, the widow of Rev. John Cotton,
26 Aug. 1656. His children, all by the first wife, were, Samuel,
Timothy, Nathaniel, and Joseph, born in England, and Eleazar,
and Increase, b. in Dorchester. SAMUEL, a minister in Dublin,
son of the preceding, was b. in Lancashire, 13 May, 1626, grad. at
H. C. 1643, admitted freeman 1648, went to England, from thence
to Scotland and Ireland, and finally settled in Dublin, where he d.
29 Oct. 1671, ae. 45. SAMUEL, minister of Windsor, was son
of Timothy Mather, and grad. at H. C. 1671, was ordained 1682,
and d. 18 March, 1726, «. 77. TIMOTHY, father of thq preced-
ing, was son of Rev. Richard Mather, and lived in Dorchester.
His sons were, Samuel ; Nathaniel, b. 2 Sept. 1658 ; Joseph, b. 25
May, 1661, and probably others.
MATHIS, MARMADUKE, is mentioned in Snow's Hist, of
Boston, and may possibly be the minister of the name of Matthews.
The name of Mathes prevails in some parts of Mass. and N. H.
MATSON, JOHN, Boston, was admitted freeman in 1633.
THOMAS, Boston, freeman in 1634, was also of Braintree, and a
military officer there. His son Joshua was b. 1640. THOMAS,
freeman 1666, d. at Boston in 1690.
MATTHEWS, FRANCIS, Pascataqua 1631. JOHN, Roxbury,
freeman 1641, may have removed to Springfield, and d. 25 April,
1684 His son Oershoih was b. 1641. MARMAD UKE, a minis*
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ter, who preached at Hull, Maiden, Lynn, and other places, return-
ed to England, and, according to Caiamy, died in 1683. MOR-
DECAI, graduated at H. C. in 1655.
MATTOCKS, DAVID, Massachusetts, freeman 1650. Those
under this head have their names spelled Mattock^ Mattucks, Mad^
dock, and Maddox, so that it is dilSicult to fix on the true orthogra-
phy of each. HENRY, Saco 1652. JAMES, a cooper of Boston,
was member of the church, and admitted freeman in 1638. JOHN,
Lynn. (See Maddox.)
MATTOON, HERBERT, Kittery 1652, Ebenezer, M. C. from
Massachusetts and Noah D. Mattoon grad. at D. C. in 1776, and
1803.
MA UD, DANIEL, a schoolmaster in Boston, was admitted
freeman in 1636, and became the first permanently established min-
ister of Dover in 1642, and remained in office until his death in
1655.
MAUDSLEY, JOHN, Dorchester, a member of the churchy was
admitted freeman in 1638. One of this name was in Westfield in
1670. His son Joseph was b. 1638. Thomas, perhaps another
son, was admitted to the church in 1658. This name is said to be
the same as Mosely. ||HENRY, Braintree 1638, member of the
ar. CO. 1643, freeman 1646, had a son Samuel, b. 1641.
MAULE, THOMAS, shop-keeper of Salem, was brought before
the council, 19 Dec. 1695, to answer for printing and publishing
a pamphlet of 260 pa^es, entitled, ** Truth held forth and main-
tained."
MAVERICK, ANTIPAS, Kittery 1652. ||ELIAS, freeman
1633, was of Charlestown 1643, member of the ar. co 1654. He
had sons, John, b. 1635 ; Elias, b. 1643 ; Paul, b. 1657. IJJAMES,
member of the ar. co. 1658. JOHN, one of the first ministers of
Dorchester, came to N. E. in 1630 ; d. at Boston, 3 Feb. 1636, m.
60. John Maverick, perhaps his son, was of Boston in 1652, and
had a son John, born in 1653. MOSES, Salem, admitted freeman
1634, became a member of the church, 12 June, 1637 ; was setp
tied in Marblehead as early as 1648, one of the founders of the
church there, 24 May, 1684 ; died 28 January 1686, aged 76.
Dana, in his Hist. Discourse, p. 13, mistakes the time of his death.
SAMUEL, freeipan 1632, lived at Noddle's Island, the settlement
of which he commenced in 1628 or 1629. He d. 10 March, 1664.
His son Samuel was one of the commissioners by Charles II in 1664
to subjugate the Dutch, and settle controversies in the New-Eng-
land colonies. Hutchinson, i. Hist. Mass. 26.
MAURY, ROGER, freeman 1631, was member of the church in
fSalem, in the records of which, the name is spelled Maurice, or
Maurie. He probably went to Providence.
MAXFIELD, CLEMENT, Dorchester 1658.
MAXWELL, JOHN, freeman 1669.
MAY, IIGEORGE, was member of the ar. co. 1661, freeman
1665. JOHN, Roxbury, probably the John Maies in colony re-
cords, admitted freeman in 1641, d. 28 April, 1670.
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MAYHEW. MEIGS.
MAYHEW, * THOMAS, Watertown, freeman 1637, represen-
tatire 1636 to 1644, excepting 1642 ; removed to Martha's Vineyard,
of which he was governour, and where he was a preacher to the In-
dians in the neighbourhood of the Vineyard, 23 years. He d. in
1681, ae. 92. His son Thomas, who was lost at sea in 1657, had 3
sons, Matthew, a preacher, who d. in 1710 ; Thomas, a judge ;
John, a preacher to the Indians at Tisbury and other places, who
d. at Chilmark, 3 Feb. 1689, ae. 37. Experience, the son of John,
was a minister, and began to preach in 1694, d. 1756 as. 84. He
was the father of Joseph, H. C. 1730 ; Nathan, H. C. 1731 ; Jona-
than, the celebrated Boston divine, H. C. 1744, who was ordained
17 June, 1747, d. 9 July, 1766, ae. 44, and Zechariah, a missiona-
ry among the Indians^ who d. 6 March, 1606, ae. 89. Davis, Mor-
ton's Memo. 275.
MAYNARD, JOHN, Cambridge 1634, freeman 1644, perhaps
of Sudbury, and one of the proprietors of Marlborough. He or the
following, d. at Sudbury, 10 Dec. 1672. JOHN, was admitted
freeman in 1649.
MA YO, JOHN, minister of Barnstable, and the first settled
over the old North church in Boston, was installed 9 Nov. 1655,
dismissed 1672, and d. in May, 1676. Judge Davis says that
" there are many of the name of Mayo in the Cape towns, probably
descended from the Rev. Mr. Mayo," Morton's Memo. 216. Jo-
seph Mayo was of Newbury 1679. Nathaniel Mayo, of Eastham, m.
Hannah, daughter of Gov. Prence.
MEAD, GABRIEL, Dorchester, freeman 1638. HENRY,
Massachusetts, freeman 1665. WILLIAM, Gloucester, was one
of the selectmen in 1647. William and Richard Mead d. at Rox-
bury in 1683 and 1690. Fifteen of the name had grad. at the N.
£. colleges in 1826.
MEADER, JOHN, Oyster-River (Durham, N. H.) 1669. This
name continues in New-Hampshire, and is now written Meder,
IIJOHN, ar. co. 1676.
MEADOWS, PHILIP, Roxbury 1642.
MEAKINS, THOMAS, Massachusetts, freeman 1637. •THO-
MAS, jun., Braintree, freeman 1636, was representative in 1644,
had a son Thomas, b. 8 June, 1643, who, or the father, was proba-
bly the same who settled at Hadley as early as 1666.
MEANE, JOHN, Cambridge, was buried 19 March, 1646. His
wife was Ann, by whom he had several children. John, his son, d.
Oct. 1646.
MEARS, JOHN, Boston, d. 12 Nov. 1663. ROBERT, Boston
1638.
MEGAPOLEN8I8, JOHN, was a Dutch minister of Long-
Island before 1668. Wood, Hist. Sketch, 29.
MEGGOT, JOSEPH, whose name is spelled in the colony re-
cords Maggott, and in the Cambridge records Mygate, was admit-
ted freeman in 1635, and probably lived in Cambridge.
MEIGS, JOHN, Weymouth, had a son John, b. in 1641. This
name exists in Connecticut, where five, Timothy, President Josiah,
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MEIGS. MERRYPIELD.
Return J., a senator in congress and governour of Ohio^ Henry
M. C, and Rev. Benjamin C. Meigs have grad. at Y. C.
MELLEN, RICHARD, Weymouth, was admitted freeman in
1639. Rev. John Mellen, H. C. 1741, was ordained at Sterling,
Mass. 19 Dec. 1744, and d. at Reading, 4 July, 1807, ae. 85. Three
of his sons grad. at H. C; 1. John, b. 8 July, 1752, grad. 1770,
minister of Barnstable, where he was ordained 12 Nov. 1783 ; d. at
Cambridge, 19 Sept. 1828 ; 2. Henry, counsellor at law, Dover, N.
H. grad. 1784, d. 31 July, 1809, ae. 52; 3. Prentiss, a senator in
Congress, and chief justice of the Superior court in Maine, was b.
in 1764, and grad. in 1784.
MELLOWS, ABRAHAM, Massachusetts, freeman 1634. ED-
WARD, Charlestown, freeman 1634, was sworn constable, 13 April
1637, [Winthrop, ii. Hist. N. E. 347] d. 5 May, 1650. His son
Abraham was b. 1645. OLIVER, Boston, freeman 1634, perhaps
the father of John, whose son John was b. in 1649. Winthrop, ii.
Hist. N. E. 347. RICHARD, Charlestown, had a son James, b. 1642.
MERCER, THOMAS, Boston, d. 28 May, 1699.
MERCHANT, JOHN, Braintree 1638. His wife Sarah d. 3
Dec. 1638. WILLIAM, Watertown 1641, probably went to Ips-
wich, and d. 4 Sept. 1668.
MERIAM, GEORGE, Concord, freeman 1641, d. 29 Dec. 1675,
Susanna, his wife, d. 8 Oct. 1675. His children were, Elizabeth,
b. 1641 ; Samuel, b. 1642 ; Hannah ; Abigail ; Sarah, and Susan-
na. Shattuck, MS Hist. Concord. JOHN, admitted freeman in
1647, might have been of Hampton. JOSEPH, Concord, brother
of George Meriam, was admitted freeman in 1638, d. 1 Jan. 1641,
leaving sons, Joseph, who m. Sarah Stone, 1653 ; John, b. 1640—1 ;
m. Mary Cooper, and had a large family. Shattuck. JOSEPH,
Cambridge, freeman 1650, had a son Joseph, b. in 1658. *ROB-
ERT, Concord, brother of George, was a merchant, and admitted
freeman 1638, town clerk from 1654 to 1676, representative from
1655 to 1658, four years, and deacon of the church d. 15 Feb.
1681, s. 72, leaving no issue. His wife d. 22 July, 1693, ae. 72.
Shattuck, MS Hist. Concord. WILLIAM, Lynn, freeman 1649,
d. 1689. His wife was Sarah ; and sons, Joseph, William, and John.
Lewis, MS Annals Lynn.
MERRICK, HENRY, Scituate 1638. THOMAS, came from
Wales in 1630, and settled in Roxbury, from whence he went to
Springfield in 1636. [Sprague, Hist. Discourse.] Seven of the
name had grad. at Harv. and Yale in 1828.
MERRILL, JOHN, Newbury, freeman 1640, d. 12 Sept. 1673,
without issue. Coffin. NATHANIEL, Newbury, brother of the
preceding, d. 16 March, 1655, leaving wife Susanna, and children,
Nathaniel, who d. in 1682 ; John ; Abraham ; Daniel, b. 20 Aug.
1640, freeman 1684 ; and Abel, b. 20 Feb. 1644.
MERRITT, NICHOLAS, Marblehead 1648. (See Marryott.)
HENRY, Scituate 1638. Coffin.
MERRYFIELD, HENRY, Dorchester 1658, had a son Benja-
min. James Merrifield d. in Boston in 1690.
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MESSINGER, HENRY, Boston, freeman 1665, had a son John,
b. there in 1641. Three, Henry, James, and Roswell, all clergy-
men, have grad. at H. C.
METCALF, JOHN, Medfield, freeman 1647. His son Joseph,
b. 1658. ♦JOSEPH, Ipswich, freeman 1635, was elected repre-
sentative 2 Sept. 1635, and several years afterwards, d. in 1665, s.
60. MICHAEL, Dedham, freeman 1640. MICHAEL, Dedham,
freeman 1645, had a son Michael, born that year. •THOMAS,
Dedham, 1652, representative in 1691. THOMAS, Ipswich 1648^
freeman 1674.
MIDDLEBROOK, JOHN, went with Rev. John Jones to Fair-
field, in Sept. 1644. Shattuck.
MIDDLECOTT, {RICHARD, Massachusetts, was, according
to Douglass, one of the first counsellors under the new charter 1692.
MIDDLEWAITE, || was admitted member of the ar.
CO. 1639.
MIGHILL, *THOMAS, Rowley, freeman 1640, was represen-
tative in 1648. His children were Samuel, Thomas, John, Ezekiel,
Nathaniel, Stephen, and Mary. THOMA8, minister of Scituate,
was son of the preceding, and was b. at Rowley, 29 Oct. 1639 ;
[J. CofRn] grad. at H. C. 1663, ordained over the 2d church in
March, 1684, d. in Feb. 1689.
MILBOURNE, WILLIAM, Boston, d. in Aug. 1699.
MILDMAY, WILLIAM, son of Sir William Mildmay, of Gra-
ces, in Essex, grad. at H. C. in 1647, and probably returned home.
Sir Walter Mildmay was the founder of Emmanuel College, in Cam-
bridge, England, 1584 ; — a college which supplied New-England
in its early days, with some of the greatest lights which illuminated
its churches.
MILES, JOHN, Concord, whose 1st wife, Sarah, d. 18 July,
1678, m. Sarah Rediat, and had, 1. John, b. 20 May, 1680, father
of Jonathan Miles, H. C. 1727, and great-grandfather of Rev. No-
ah Miles, D. C. 1780 ; 2. Samuel, b. 19 Feb. 1682. A John Miles
was admitted freeman in 1638, who is supposed to be the preceding.
Shattuck, MS Hist. Concord. JOHN, minister of Swanzey, came
from South Wales to N. E. about 1662, formed a Baptist church in
Rehoboth, 1663, went to Swanzey, a. 1667, and d. 3 Feb. 1683,
leaving a widow Ann, the daughter of John Humphrey, and child-
ren, John, Susanna, and Samuel, " then at college," as expressed
in his last will. Shattuck. Felt. SAMUEL, freeman 1645, per-
haps of Boston, where Samuel, son of Samuel and Elizabeth Miles,
was b. 27 April, 1662. SAMUEL, minister of King's chapel,
Boston, probably the son of Rev. John Miles, grad. at H. C. 1^4,
went to England ,* was admitted to the degree of Master of Arts at
Oxford ; received holy orders ; returned to N. K and became rector
of King's chapel, 29 June, 1689; d. 4 March, 1729.
MILLER, ALEXANDER, Dorchester, freeman 1638. Forty-
four persons of the name* of Miller were on the catalogue of the N.
E., N. Y, and N. J. colleges in 1826. •ANTHONY, Dover, was
representative from 1674 to 1676, three years. JAMES, Charles-
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town, d. 2 Aug. 1676. JOHN, one of the first ministers of Row-
ley, where he resided from 1639 to 1641, came to N. E. as early as
1638, lived a short time at Roxbury, admitted fi'eeman 1639, went
to Yarmouth in 1641, remained there several years, and died at
Groton, 12 June, 1663. He was the first town clerk of Rowley.
JOHN, Newbury, whose wife Mary d. 1663. THOMAS, Dor-
chester had sons, John and Jonathan. A Thomas Miller was of
Rowley, a. 1648, and a Thomas Miller d. at Springfield in 1690.
WILLIAM, Ipswich 1648, perhaps went to Northampton, where
William Miller was one of the first settlers.
MILLERD, or MILWARD, THOMAS, Newbury 1641, had
several daughters born in that place. He d. at Boston, 1 Sept.
1653. He may be the mate of the Hector, noticed by Winthrop, i.
Hist. N. E. 187, and by Mr. Savage, in a note, p. 188. The name
still exists in Massachusetts. A Mr. Milward was of Gloucester in
1642.
MILLET, RICHARD, requested to be made fi-ceman, 19 Oct.
1630, and probably the same, who took the oath, 11 June, 1633.
THOMAS, Dorchester, was admitted fi-eeman 1637. THOMAS,
Gloucester 1660, had sons John, Nathaniel, and Thomas, of age in
1664.
MILLS, JOHN, requested freedom, 19 Oct. 1630, and admitted
freeman in 1632. Joy and Recompence, daughters of John Mills,
were baptized in Boston church, Oct. 1630, and are the first record-
ed as baptized there. Prince, ii. Annals, 5. JOHN, freeman 1633,
might be the father of Joy and Recompence, and the town clerk of
Braintree in 1653. Twenty-one of the name had grad. in N. £. at
the different colleges in 1828.
MILNER, MICHAEL, Lynn 1638, went to Long-Island 1640.
Lewis
MINARD, THOMAS, Hingham 1636. Lincoln, Hist. King-
ham. JOHN, Boston, d. 4 Oct. 1658.
MI^GAY, •JEFFREY, Hampton, freeman 1640, was represen-
tative 1650, d. 1658.
MINOR, THOMAS, Massachusetts, was admitted freeman in
1634, and perhaps went to Conn., where the name exists, and where
eight had jrad. at H. C. in 1828.
MINOT, •GEORGE, Dorchester, freeman 1634, representative
in 1635 and 1636, was ruling elder of the church, 30 years, and d.
24 Dec. 1671, ae. 78. He had sons, John ; James ; Stephen ; Sam-
uel, b. 6 Dec. 1635, d. 18 Dec. 1690. JAMES, Dorchester, son of
the preceding, was b. 31 Dec. 1628 ; m. Hannah, daughter of Is-
rael Stoughton, and d. 30 March, 1676. His children were, Israel,
b. 18 Oct. 1654 ; George, b. 14 Nov. 1655 ; James, b. 2 April,
1659; William, b. 18 Sept. 1662. Rev. T. M. Harris, MS Letter.
JAMES, Dorchester 1634, Boston 1645, was son of Thomas Minot,
esq. of Saffiron-Welden, England. W. Gibbs, MS letter. JOHN,
Dorchester, son of George Minot, was b. in England, in 1626. His
sons were, 1. James, b. 18 Sept. 1653 ; grad. at H. C. 1675, settled
in Concord ; 2. John^ who d. of small pox, 6 April, 1690. leavinff
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MINOT. MIXEE.
several sons ; 3. Stephen, b. 10 Aug. 1662, settled in Boston, was
grandfather of Stephen, H. C. 1730, who d. 14 Jan. 1787, ae. 75,
whose son George Richards Minot, H. C. 1778, is the well known
historian of Massachusetts ; 4. Samuel, b. 3 July, 1665. Rev. T.
M. Harris, MS letter. STEPHEN, Dorchester, brother of the pre-
ceding, was b. 6 May, 1631, and d. 13 Feb. 1671, leaving issue.
Ibid. THOMAS, one of the first settlers of New-London 1648.
Trumbull, i. 169.
MIPHAM, JOHN, GuUford 1643. Ibid. 285,
MIRECK, JAMES, Newbury 1656, was born a, 1612. Judge
Sewall records the burning of his house in 1686. JOHN, Charlea-
town 1642, had a son Benjamin, b. in 1644.
MITCHELL, EDWARD, Hingham 1638, was probably a son
of the following. EXPERIENCE, came to N. E. in the third ship,
named the Ann, in 1623 ; was one of the company of pilgrims at
Leyden, in Holland, where he left a brother (who permanently
settled and d. there) ; was one of the first proprietors of Plymouth ;
removed to Duxbury as early as 1645 ; from thence to Bridgewater,
where he died a. 1689, aged nearly 90 years. He had 4 sons,
Thomas, Jacob, John, and Edward. Edward had a son Edward,
b. 7 Feb. 1716, who was a colonel and magistrate many years, and
d. 23 Dec. 1801, ae. 85, whose son Cushing Mitchell, esq. was fa-
ther of Nahum Mitchell, H. C. 1789, a member of the Mass. Hist.
Society, late treasurer of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and
one of its members in Congress. The descendants of Experience
Mitchell are numerous and respectable, and several have grad. at
H. C. Twenty-six of the name in N. E. had grad. at the N. £.
colleges in 1826. JONATHAN, came early to N. E., and resid-
ed at Charlestown, at Concord in 1635, at Saybrook, at Weathers-
field, and at Stamford. He d. in 1645, sb. 54. Mather, ii. Mag-
nalia 66. JON A THAN, the fourth minister of Cambridge, was
son of the preceding, and was b. in 1624, came to N. E. in 1635,
grad. at H. C. 1647, was ordained 21 Aug. 1650, d, 9 July, 1668,
SB. 42. He m. Margaret, daughter of Rev. Thomas Shepard, his
predecessor. His children were, Nathaniel, b. 1 March, 1659;
John ; Samuel, b. 14 Oct. 1660, grad. at H. C. 1681 ; Jonathan
who grad. at H. C. 1687, and d. 14 March, 1695, and perhaps oth-
ers. IMATTHEW, Springfield 1636, perhaps the same who was
elected magistrate of Connecticut 1637. Matthew Mitchell went
with Rev. Mr. Denton to Hempstead, L. I. in 1643. WILLIAM,
Charlestown, d. 23 Jan. 1678. WILLIAM, Newbury, had several
children, and d. 16 July, 1654.
MITCHELSON, ||EDWARD, Cambridge 1636, bought Simon
Willard's farm. He was member of the ar. co. 1639. His wife was
Ruth Bushell, his childrea were Ruth, Bethiah, Edward, b. 1644,
grad. at H. C. 1665, and Elizabeth. WILLIAM, Cambridge 1658.
MIX, STEPHEN, minister of Weathersfield, grad. at H. C.
1690, ordained 1694, d. 22 or 28 August, 1738, s. 66.
MIXER, ISAAC. Watertown, was admitted fi-eeman in 1638.
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MODESTY. MOODY.
MODESTY, JOHN, Dorchester, d. 27 Oct. 1661, [MS copy of
Records/! The race has probably become extinct.
MONK, GEORGE, Boston, d. 7 Sept. 1698. Dunton [2 Coll.
Mass. Hist. Soc ii. 103] gives some account of him. William
Monk d. at Boston in 1690.
MONTAGUE, RICHARD, Boston 1646, perhaps freeman 1680.
MOODY, •CALEB, son of William Moody, was born a. 1637,
settled in Newbury, which he represented in 1677 and 1678. He
d. 25 August, 1698 ae. 61. He had several children, of whom were
Daniel and Samuel. Samuel, was b. 4 Jan. 1676, grad. at H. C.
1697, was ordained the minister of York, 20 Dec. 1700, d. 13 Nov.
1747. His son Joseph, b. 1700, grad. at H. C. 1718, was ordained
over the 2d church in York 1732, dismissed 1741, d. 20 March,
1753, SB. 53. The celebrated master, Samuel Moody, H. C. 1746,
for thirty years the preceptor of Dummer Academy, was son of Jo-
seph, and d. at Exeter, 17 Dec. 1795, ae. 70, having never married.
DEBORAH, whom Winthrop calls ** a wise and anciently religious
woman," lived at Lynn in 1640, having purchased Mr. Humphrey's
plantation. Mr. Savage [ii. Winthrop, 123] has more acquaintance
with this lady, however slight it may be, than any one else. Mr.
Coffin informs me that Sir Henry Moody, knight, is named in Sa-
lem records as her son. JOHN, Roxbury, was admitted freeman
1633. Winthrop, i. Hist. N. E. 106. Prince, ii. Annals, 96.
JOSHUA, first minister of the first church in Portsmouth, was
son of William Moody, and was b. in England, in 1633, grad. at
H. C. 1653, commenced preaching at Portsmouth 1658 ; was or-
dained 1671 ; was at Boston, the assistant minister of the first
church, from 23 May, 1684 to 1692 ; was invited to the presidency
of H. C. which he declined ; returned to his charge at Portsmouth,
but d. while on a visit at Boston, 4 July, [Boston records say the 6]
1697, 8B. 64. His son Samuel, H. C. 1689, was a preacher at New-
Castle, N. H. ; m. Esther Green, of Boston, 4 April, 1695, and
had sons, Joshua, b. and d. 1696 ; Joshua, 2d, b. 31 Oct. 1697,
probably grad. at H. C. 1716 ; Samuel, b. 29 Oct. 1699, was a
magistrate, and d. at Brunswick, Me., Sept. 1758, ae. 59, and one
daughter, Mary, all born at New-Castle. Both the Rev. Joshua
Moody and his son Samuel wrote the name Moodey, SAMUEL,
came to N. E. in 1635, went to Hartford, thence to Hadley with
the first settlers. He had three sons, John, Samuel, and Ebenezer,
and 3 daughters. John had five children, and d. in Hartford. Sam-
uel d. at 80 years and Ebenezer at 83. Coffin. WILLIAM, came
firom Wales, [Tradition] as early as 1634, was admitted freeman
1635, and after a short residence in Ipswich, settled in Newbury,
where he d. 25 Oct. 1673. He had three sons, Joshua and Caleb,
already noticed, and Samuel, who m. Mary Cutting, 30 November,
1657, had sons, William, b. in 1661 ; John, b. in 1663 ; Samuel,
b. 1671 ; Cutting, and probably others, one of whom was ancestor
of Rev. Silas Moody, H. C. 1761, the minister of Arundel, Me.,
who d. in April, 1816. Twenty-five of the name of Moody had
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MOORE, MORRILL.
grad. at the N. E. colleges in 1826, most of whom have descended
from William Moody.
MOORE, FRANCIS, Cambridge, freeman 1639, had a son
John, b. 20 March, 1645. Catharine, his wife, d. 28 Dec. 1648.
He m. Elizabeth, 2d wife, before 1658. FRANCIS, Cambridge,
son of the preceding, was admitted freeman 1652, and m. before
1658. GEORGE, Scituate 1636, kept a ferry at Jones River,
Kingston, Mass., 1633. 2 Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. iv. 224. GOLD-
EN, Cambridge 1636, freeman 1641, was one of the first settlers
of what now constitutes Lexington, in 1642 ; removed to Billerica,
and there d. 3 Sept. 1698, s. 89. His wife was Joan, and his child-
ren were, Hannah, Lydia, and Ruth. JAMES, Salem, was ad-
mitted freeman 1637 ; d. 1659. JEREMY, Hingham 1638, was
admitted freeman 1644. JOHN, Dorchester, came to N. E. in 1630,
was a deacon of the church, and removed to Windsor with Rev.
John Warham, a. 1636. There were three of the name of John
Moore among the early freemen, and they were admitted to the oath
in 1631, 1633, and 1636. JOHN, Cambridge 1636. There also
appears to have been a John Moore at Salem in 1637 ; one at Lynn
in 1641, and one at Braintree, whose wife d. in 1643. JOHN,
Sudbury 1643, d. 6 June, 1674. His^son Jacob was born in 1645.
See Revo, in N. E. Justified. *JOHN, Lancaster, was represen-
tative at the Dec. session in 1689 and Feb. session in 1690. *JOHN,
jun., Lancaster was representative at the June session, 1689. RICH-
ARD, Plymouth 1623. Davis, Morton's Memo, 382. RICHARD.
(See Mower.) SAMUEL, Salem, freeman 1632, had a family of
7 persons in 1637. Felt. THOMAS, Massachusetts, freeman
1631. THOMAS, Pascataqua 1631. Adams, Annals Portsmouth,
18. THOMAS, Salem, admitted member of the church 1639,
freeman 1642 ; dismissed from the church, and probably removed.
A Thomas Moor d. in Boston in 1690. WILLIAM, Exeter 1645,
was a representative from that town in the provincial assembly of
N. H. WILLIAM, Kittery 1652. WILLIAM, Ipswich, 1665, d.
1671, [2 Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. viii. 107] where the name is Mover.
MOORES, EDMUND, Newbury 1640, was born a. 1614, and
had sons, Jonathan, b. 1646 ; Richard, b. 1653, and several daugh-
ters. Ann, his wife, d. in 1670.
MORELL, WILLIAM, an episcopal minister, came to N. E.
in Sept. 1623, with Capt. Robert Gorges, and resided at Weymouth,
but lefl the country in a short time.
MORGAN, BENNET, Plymouth 1623. Davis, Morton's Me-
mo. 378. JAMES, Roxbury, freeman 1643. MILES, Springfield
1645, d. 28 May, 1699. Sprague, Hist. Discourse. ROBERT,
Salem 1637, b. in 1600, was one of the founders of the church in
Beverly in 1667. ROGER, Charlestown, d. 23 Dec. 1675.
MORLEY, JOHN, Massachusetts, was admitted freeman 1645.
MORRILL, II ABRAHAM, Cambridge 1632, member of the ar.
CO. 1638, removed to Salisbury, and there died a. 1662. Jacob
Morrill, probably his son, was representative in 1689. Rev. Isaac
Morrill, H. C. 1737, was born in Salisbury, 20 May, 1718, ordain-
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ed at Wilmington, 90 May, 1741, and died 17 August, 1793, s. 75.
His son Samuel, H. C. 1766, who d. 21 Sept. 1785, sb. 41, was ia^
Iher of Governour David, L. Morril and Judge Samuel Morril, of
New-Hampshire. ISAAC, Roxbufy, freeman 1699, was b. in En-
gland in 158S, came to N. E. as early as 1632, and d. 18 Oct. 1662,
aged 74. Isaac and Abraham, sons of Isaac Morrill, were b. in
1633 and ]640 at Roxbury.
MORRIS, •EDWARD, Roxbury, was representative from 1678
to 1686, 9 years. Grace, his widow, d. 6 June, 1705. *||RICH.
ARD, Rotbury, was representative 1635, member of the ar. co.
1637, probably went to Exeter, a. 1638. Dr. Belknap, [i. Hist.
N. HJ calls him Merrys. RICE, Charlestown, d. 1647. SAR-
GENT, Massachusetts, was admitted freeman 1633. THOMAS,
New-Haven, d. 21 July, 1673. WILLIAM, New-Haven 1639,
had sons, John, Eleazar, Ephraim, Thomas, b. 1651, Joseph, b.
1656. Dodd, East-Haven Register 135—137.
MORSE, ANTHONY, Newbury, was admitted freeman 1636,
d. 12 Oct. 1686. He had 5 sons and 4 daughters. Three of the
sons were Anthony, Benjamin, a deacon, and Joshua. Two of his
sons went to Woodstock, Conn. [Coffin.] one of whom was the
ancestor of Rev. Jedidiah Morse., D. D., the well known geogra-
pher, who died at New-Haven, in June, 1826, aged 65. Twenty-
one of the name of Morse had grad. at the N. E. colleges in 1826.
DANIEL, Dedham, freeman 1635, had son», Obadiah, b. 1639,
freeman 1677, Daniel, b. 1640 ; Jonathan, b. 1643, freeman 1672.
He lived also in Medfield, and had sons, Nathaniel and Samuel, b.
there. JOHN, Dedham, one of the early settlers, had sons, John,
b. 1639; Joseph, b. 1640, Ezra, b. 1643. JOSEPH, Dedham,
one of the early settlers, had a son Samuel, born in 1639, who lived
in Medfield, and whose house was the first fired by the Indians,
when that town was destroyed, 21 Feb. 1676. Hubbard, Ind. Wars,
62. JOSEPH, Ipswich 1646, had sons, John admitted freeman in
1654, and Joseph. Coffin. ROBERT, Newbury 1657, removed
to Elizabeth-Town, New-Jersey. Coffin. SAMUEL, Dedham, free-
man 1640, d. 5 Dec. 1654 at Medfield. WILLIAM, one of the
proprietors and first settlers of Newbury, was b. a. 1614, and died
Nov. 1683. His son Timothy was b. 10 June, 1648. He had sev-
eral daughters. Mather [ii. Magnolia, 391] gives a marvellous
account of his house being the scene of demoniacal operations,
which Mr. Coffin says were performed by a vicious boy in his family.
MORTON, CHARLES, minister oi Charlestown, the eldest
son of Nicholas Morton, who was descended from an ancient fami-
ly at Morton, in Nottinghamshire, the seat of Thomas Morton, the
secretary of Edward III, was educated at Wadham College, Oxford,
settled as the minister of Blisland in Cornwall, from whence he was
ejected afler the restoration of Charles II ; came to N. E. in July
1686, and soon settled over the church at Charlestown, 5 Nov. 1686,
d. 11 April, 1698, aged 72. Penhallow [2 Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. i.
1621 says, he d. in 1696, and Bartlett, [2 Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. ii.
176] 1706, at the age of 80, but they both mistake. Nicholas Morton,
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MORTON, MOUNTFORT.
H. C. 1686, who d. 3 Nov. 1689, was probably his son. GEORGE,
came to N. E. in July, 1623, in the ship Ann ; settled at Plymouth,
and d. in June, 1624, leaving a widow and four children, Nathan-
iel ; John ; Patience, and Ephraim, who was representative of
Plymouth in 1692. Davis, Morton's Memo. Preface. NATHAN-
IEL, Plymouth, son of the preceding, was b. in England, a. 1612,
came with his father to N. £. 1623, was admitted freeman in 1635,
m. Lydia Cooper the same year, and had 8 children. She died in
1673, and he m. Ann Templar, a widow, of Charlestown. He d.
28 June, 1685. Ibid. THOMAS, one of the first settlers at
Mount Wollaston [Braintree, now duincy] in 1625, was a lawyer,
and gave much trouble to the early colonists. He was seized by
Capt. Standish in 1628, and in 1630, by order of the court of as-
sistants of Massachusetts, was sent to England, but returned ; was
imprisoned for writing his New English Canaan ; — went to Aga-
menticus, Maine, and d. in 1644 or 1645. Prince. Hutchinson.
Whitney, Hist. Quincy, 9 — 17. THOMAS, sen. and jun., were
of Plymouth, in 1623. Davis, Morton's Memo. 378, 379, 382.
MOSE, JOHN, Massachusetts, was admitted freeman in 1640.
MOSELY, SAMUEL, a captain in PhUip's war 1675. See
Hubbard.
MOSS, JOHN, Boston, freeman 1636, d. 26 May, 1657. Rev.
Joseph Moss grad. at H. C. 1699, and Rev. Reuben Moss, at Y. C.
in 1787. JOSEPH, Watertown 1637, had sons, Joseph, b. 1637 ;
John, b. 1638. and Jonathan, b. 1643.
MOTT, ADAM, Hingham, was admitted freeman 1637. NA-
THANIEL, Braintree, married Hannah Shooter 1656. His son
Nathaniel, b. 1657.
MOULTHROP, MATTHEW, New-Haven 1639, m. Jane, and
had Matthew, Elizabeth, Mary. Dodd, East-Haven Register, 137 —
139. He d. 22 Dec. 1668.
MOULTON, JAMES, was born in 1602, came to N. E. and set-
tled at Salem ; was admitted to the church, 31 Dec. 1637, freeman
1638, was living at Wenham in 1667. Felt. *JOHN, Newbury
1637, removed to Hampton 1638, was admitted freeman, and rep-
resented that town in 1639, died a. 1660. Henry and William
Moulton d. at Hampton in 1664. ♦ROBERT, a ship-builder, was
of Salem as early as 1629, admitted freeman, 18 May, 1631, rep-
resentative of Charlestown at the first court in 1634, died in 1655,
leaving son Robert, and a daughter who m. an Edwards. Felt,
Annals, 226, 320. ROBERT, Salem, son of the preceding, was
admitted to the church 1640, and there died in the fall of 1665,
leaving children, Robert, Abigail, Samuel, Hannah, John, Joseph,
Miriam, and Mary. He was admitted freeman in 1631. Ibid. 226,
320. THOMAS, Newbury 1637, went to Hampton ; was ad-
mitted freeman in 1638. Belknap, i. Hist. N. H. 36. " This name
has been a distinguished one in the county of York, Me. Hon«
Jeremiah d. at York, 22 Oct. 1727, ©. 77.
MOUNTFORT, ||BEN JAMIN, was member of the ar, co. 1679.
JOHN, ar. co. 1697.
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MOUNTJOY. MUSSEY.
MOUNTJOY, BENJAMIN, Salem, died 1659. GEORGE,
Boston, freeman 1647, Casco 1665. (See Munjot.) JOHN,
Maine 1675. Hubbard, Ind. Wars.
MOURT, GEORGE, author of Mourt's Relation of the Be-
ginning of Plymouth.
MOUSALL, ♦ II JOHN, born a. 1596, came to N. E. and settled
at Charlestown, was admitted freeman 1634, representative in 1635;
member of the ar. co. 1641, probably removed to Woburn. John
Mousall, admitted freeman in 1651, might be his son. *RALPH,
Charlestown, came to N. E. as early as 1630, admitted freeman
1631, representative 1636 to 1638, 3 years, a deacon of the
church, d. 30 April, 1657. This name is Mushell in the colony
records.
MOWER, RICHARD, a mariner of Salem, was b. in 1612, ad-
mitted to the church in 1642 and freeman 1643. Richard, captain
of a merchant vessel, and Thomas Gardner Mower, M. D., grad. at
H. C. in 1738 and 1810.
MOXON, GEORGE, the first minister of Springfield, was a
native of Yorkshire ; was educated at Cambridge University, came
to N. E. and was admitted freeman, 7 Sept. 1637, became the min-
ister of Springfield the same year, remained there until 1653, when
he returned to England, and d. 15 Sept. 1687, ee. 85. He had
several children born at Springfield. George, one of his eldest
sons, was among the ejected ministers after the restoration. Cala-
my, ii. Account, 313.
MULFORD, JOHN, was one the first settlers of East-Hampton,
L. I., 1650. Wood. One of the name of Mulford was an assist-
ant in 1658 of Connecticut.
MULLINS, WILLIAM, Plymouth 1620, one of the first pil-
grims, d. 21 Feb. 1621. Prince, i. Annals, 98.
MONDAY, HENRY, Salisbury, admitted freeman 1640. His
wife d. 22 July, 1654.
MUNINGS, GEORGE, Watertown, freeman 1635, d. at Boston,
24 Aug. 1658. His son George was b. in 1655. This name is
probably misspelled Manings in Christian Examiner for 1828, page
501.
MUNJOY, GEORGE, Boston, freeman 1647, had sons, John,
b. 1653 ; George, b. 1656. He probably removed to Casco before
1665. Hutchinson, Coll. 398. (See Mountjoy.)
MUSSELWHITE, JOHN, Newbury 1635, came from Beaver-
stock, in Wiltshire, was admitted freeman 1639, and died 30 Jan.
1670. This name, written Mussettwhit in the colony records, and
Mussihway in the Newbury records, has now become Siloway,
and is thus spelled by his descendants, who are in the vicinity of
Newbury. Coffin.
MUSHELL, RALPH, freeman 1631. (See Mousall.)
MUSSEY, JOHN, Ipswich 1635, removed to Salisbury, and d.
12 April, 1690. ROBERT, one of the first settlers of Ipswich,
was admitted freeman 1634. His eldest son, Joseph, settled in
Newbury. A Hester Mussey was a proprietor in 1632 of Cam-
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MUSSEY. NEEDHAM.
bridge, [Holmes, Hist. Cambridge] in the vicinity of which the
name has been common. A widow Mussey was of Hampton in
1638. Belknap, i. Hist. N. H. 37. Three of the name, Benjapain,
William, and Artemas Bowers, natives of Lexington, Mass., grad.
at H. C. in 1774, 1793, and 1824. Reuben D. Mussey, M. D., the
professor at Dartmouth, grad. at that institution in 1803. The
name besides written as above, is also spelled Muzzey and Muzzy,
MUST, EDWARD, Massachusetts, was admitted freeman in
1634.
M YCALL, JAMES, Braintree 1657, had a son James, b. in 1658.
MYGATE, JOSEPH, Cambridge 1634. (See Meggot.)
MYLAM, ||JOHN, a cooper, was admitted a member of the
church in Boston 1635, freeman 1636, member of the ar. co. 1641.
He had sons, Benjamin, b. 1639 ; John, b. 1640 ; Eliasaph, b. 1642 ;
Samuel, b. 1644 ; Ebenezer, b. 1646, and Joseph, b. 1651. John
Maylem, possibly of this family, grad. at H. C. ]7]5.
NASH, GREGORY, Charlestown 1630, with his wife, d. in
Feb. 1631. Eleven persons of this name, six of them clergymen,
had grad. at the N. E. colleges in 1828, of whom Rev. William
Nash, Y. C. 1791, was of West-Boylston, Mass., and d. in March,
1829, ae. 60. *JACOB, Weymouth^ freeman 1666, was represen-
tative in 1689 and 1690. ♦JAMES, Weymouth, freeman 1645,
was representative in 1655, 1662, 1667 ; was a captain of the mi-
litia, and probably father of Jacob, the preceding, and James, both
of whom were admitted freeman in 1666. :|:JOHN, Connecticut,
was an assistant in 1072. ROBERT, Boston 1643. Snow, Hist.
Boston, 120. SAMUEL, Duxbury 1645, was a representative in
1653. ♦TIMOTHY, Hadley 1663, freeman 1678, was a represen-
tative in 1692. WILLIAM, Massachusetts, was admitted freeman
in 1634.
NASON, RICHARD, Kittery 1652. Reuben Nason, H. C.
1802, was minister of Freeport, Me.
NEAL, ALEXANDER, Braintree m. Mary Belcher in 1655.
EDWARD, Weymouth 1662, perhaps of Westfield in 1686.
♦FRANCIS, Falmouth 1658, representaive 1670. FRANCIS,
Salem, was admitted freeman in 1675. HENRY, Braintree 1642,
had sons, Samuel, b. 1647 ; Henry, b. 1649 ; Joseph, by 2d wife,
b. 1660. JOHN, Massachusetts, was admitted freeman in 1642.
WALTER, Pascataqua 1631, one of the stewards of Captain John
Mason, was a captain, and was styled the governour of Pascataqua
in 1631. He left N. E. in August, 1633. See Belknap, i. Hist.
N. H. and Savage, ii. Winthrop, Index. Walter Neal, perhaps his
son, was of N. H. in 1660, and in 1673 was appointed a lieutenant
under James Pendleton. He had a son Samuel, by Mary, his wife,
born 14 June, 1661. Three of the name of Neal had grad. at H.
C. in 1828.
NEEDHAM, EDWARD, Lynn, 1639 was one of the grantees
of South-Hampton, L. 1. 1640, d. 16 May, 1677. Lewis. JONAS,
Lynn 1650, d. 24 Oct. 1674, ©. 64. Ibid. NICHOLAS, Exeter
1639, was one of the witnesses of the genuine deed of the Indian
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NEEDHAM. NEWGATE!,
sachems to Rev. John Wheelwright, 1638. WILLIAM, Braintree,
freeman 1648, perhaps d. in Boston, 30 Dec. 1690. A John Need-
ham d. in Boston in 1690.
NEGUS, BENJAMIN, Boston, was admitted to the church 1642,
freeman in 1648 ; had sons, Benjamin, b. 1641 ; Samuel, b. 1645.
JONATHAN, of Lynn and Boston, was b. in 1601, admitted free-
man in 1634. Snow, in his Hist. Boston, spells this name Negoose.
NELSON, II JOHN, a captain, and member of the ar.co. 1680,
was one of the council of safety, upon the seizure and imprison-
ment of Sir Edmund Andros in 1689. Hutchinson, i. Hist. Mass.
340. PHILIP, Rowley, the eldest son of Thomas Nelson, came
to N. E. witb his father in 1638, grad. at H. C. in 1654, admitted
freeman in 1667. He caused some trouble in the church at Row-
ley by pretending to cure a deaf and dumb boy in imitation of our
Saviour, by saying Ephphatha. The ministers of the neighbour-
ing churches were called together, and the boy was brought before
them to see whether he could speak or not. He was interrogated,
but " there he stood," say the records, "like a deaf and dumb boy
as he was." They could not make him hear, nor could he speak.
Coffin, MS Letter. Nelson died, according to Mr. Coffin, 20 Aug.
1691, which is doubtless correct, yet Mr. Winthrop, who makes
him a military officer, says he d. 4 Dec. 1721. ♦THOMAS, Row-
ley, freeman 1639, was representative in 1640. He brought from
England two sons, Philip, the preceding, and Thomas, who lived in
Rowley, and d. 5 April, 1712, sb. 77, leaving issue, which sons,
when he returned to England, whore he d. in Aug. 1648, he left in
care of their great uncle, Richard Dummer. Thirteen of the name
had received the honours of the N. E. colleges in 1828.
NETHERLAND, WILLIAM, Massachusetts, was admitted
freeman in 1635.
NEWBURY, JBENJAMIN, was an assistant of Connecticut in
1685. A Captain Newbury was an officer in Philip's war 1676.
RICHARD, Weymouth 1655. ♦THOMAS, Lynn, was represen-
tative in 1635. Savage, i. Winthrop, 398. {WALTER, Rhode-
Island, was one of Sir Edmund Andros' council in 1687. Hutch-
inson, i. Hist. Mass. 317.
NEWCOMB, FRANCIS, Braintree 1640, d. 27 May, 1692, ».
upwards of 100 years. He had sons, John ; Peter, of Braintree, b.
16 May, 1640 ; Abijah. Three of the name had grad. at H. C. in
1828, and the same number at Dart. College.
NEWELL, ABRAHAM, Roxbury, freeman 1635, d. 13 June,
1672, HB. 92. Sixteen of the name of Newell had grad. at Harvard
and Yale colleges in 1828. ABRAHAM, Roxbury, freeman 1653,
d. 17 August, 1692. His son Abraham was b^ in 1654.
NEWGATE, ♦JOHN, a merchant, selectman, and constable of
Boston, was admitted freeman in 1635, and elected representative
at the March and Sept. sessions 1638. He d in 1665, leaving sev*
eral children. One of his daughters m. Simon Lynde, one m. Pe-
ter Oliver, and Elizabeth, a third, m. John Oliver, and afterwards,
Edward Jackson. A Joshua Newgate died at Boston, 12 Nov.
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NEWGATE. NEWTON.
1658. IINATHANIEL, Boston, son of the preceding, was mem-
ber of the ar. co. in 1646. He had one son, Nathaniel, whose child-
ren were, Isabel ; Lewis, b. 1697; John, lf>. 1703, some of whom
wrote the name Newdigate.
NEWHALL, AJJITHONY, an inhabitant of Lynn 1636, was al-
so of Salem, and died a. 1657. Dr. Horace and Rev. Ebenezer
Newhall grad. at H. C. 1817 and 1818. THOMAS, Lynn 1630,
had sons, John, who m. Sarah Lewis, 10 April, 1646 ; Thomas,
who was the first child born in Lynn, m. Elizabeth, daughter of
Robert Potter, 29 Sept. 1652, and was buried 1 April, 16S7, s.57.
Lewis.
NEWLAND, WILLIAM, Lynn, removed to Sandwich 1637.
Ibid.
NEWMAN, AN TIP AS, the second minister of Wenharo,
where he began to preach in 1657, was ordained in Dec. 1663, d.
15 Oct. 1672. He was one of those ministers who signed the peti-
tion or address to the general court of Mass. 1670. [See Hutchin-
son's Hist. Mass. i. 249, 250.] . He m. Elizabeth, daughter of Gov.
John Winthrop, in 1658. She afterwards m. Zerubbabel Endecott,
of Salem. Mr. Felt gives me the names of Mr. Newman's children,
viz. : John, Samuel, Waitstill, Elizabeth, and Sybil. JFRANCIS,
New-Haven, was an assistant in 1653, and governour of the colony
from 1658 to 1661. He was also an agent to Gov. Stuyvesant at
Manhadoes, and a commissioner of the United Colonies. He died
in 1661. JOHN, Ipswich 1634. NOAH, Rehoboth probably son
of Rev. Samuel Newman, whom he succeeded as minister, d. 16
April, 1676. He m. Joanna, daughter of Rev. Henry Flint, 3 Dec.
1669. ROBERT, New-Haven 1669. SAMUEL, was born at
Banbury, in England, [Lord, ii. Lempriere's Univ. Biog. 381, says
Bombay] in 1600 or 1601, was educated at Oxford, and came to
N. E., according to Judge Davis, in 1636, was admitted freeman in
1638, lived in Dorchester one year and a half, in Weymouth
about 5 years, and in Rehoboth from 1644 to his death, 5 July,
1663. Samuel, probably his eldest son, lived in Rehoboth, and
had several children. Antipas and Noah, above, were probably his
sons. Hope, his daughter, was born at Weymouth, 29 Nov. 1641.
THOMAS, Ipswich 1665, d. in 1676, leaving sons, Thomas, John,
and Benjamin.
NEWMARCH, JOHN, Rowley 1643. John Newmarch, min-
ister of Kittery, Joseph Newmarch, of Newcastle, a counsellor of
New-Hampshire 1754, grad. at H. C. in 1690 and 1728.
NEWT, JAMES, Pascataqua 1632, was one of the grand jury in
1643. This name exists in New-Hampshire, and is spelled Nute.
NEWTON, ANTHONY, Lancaster 1652, freeman 1671.
JOHN, Massachusetts, was admitted freeman 1633. JOHN, the
freeman of 1643, was probably of Marlborough. RICHARD, Sud-
bury 1640, freeman 1645, had sons, John, Moses, and Ezekiel.
Moses had 8 sons and 2 daughters. ROGER, the first minister of
Farmington, was ordained 13 Oct. 1652, was dismissed 1657 ; re-
moved to Mil ford, where he was installed 22 August, 1660. He d.
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7 June, 1683. He m. Mary, the eldest daughter of Rev. Thomas
Hooker. Rev. Roger Newton, D. D., who grad. at Y. C. 1758,
was probably a descendant. Twelve persons of the name had grad.
in N. E. in 1827.
NICHOLAS, WALTER, Massachusetts, was admitted freeman
1636. Savage, ii. Winthrop, 366.
NICHOLET, CHARLES, came from Virginia, and was in-
vited to preach at Salem, with Rev. John Higginson, in 1671, and
two years after, by a vote of the town, was chosen to continue ibr
life ; but the church did not give their concurrence. He afterwards
received a call from a new church in Salem, which was gathered at
Lynn in 1674, but left the place soon after and went to England in
1672. Judge Sewall. J. Coffin. Spirit of the Pilgrims, ii. 176.
Felt, Annals.
NICHOLS, ADAM, Massachusetts, was admitted freeman in
1670. DANIEL, Charlestown, d. 2 July, 1659. DAVID, Boston,
d. 13 March, 1653. JAMES, Maiden, freeman 1668, d. 30 May,
1695. RANDALL, Charlestown 1642. RICHARD, Ipswich
1648, perhaps afterwards of Reading, where a Richard Nichols d.
22 Nov. 1674. THOMAS, Scituate 1645, Hingham 1653. Eigh-
teen persons of the name had grad. at the N. E. colleges in 1828.
NICHOLSON, EDMUND and FRANCIS, were of Marblehead
in 1648.
NICKERSON, WILLIAM, Massachusetts, freeman 1638.
NIGHTENGALE, BENJAMIN and WILLIAM, Braintree be-
fore 1690. John Nightengale, of Hull, d. in Boston 1706. Sam-
uel Nightengale, H. C. 1734, was from Braintree.
NILES, JOHN, Braintree 1639, freeman 1647, d. in Feb. 1694, ae.
94. . He had sons, John b. 4 March, 1639 ; Joseph, b. 1640 ; Nathaniel,
b. 1642 ; Samuel, b. 1644 ; Increase, b. 1646 ; Benjamin, b. 1650;
Isaac, b. 1658. Samuel Niles, H. C. 1699, was minister of Brain-
tree. Nine persons of the name had grad. at the N. E. colleges in
1828.
NOBLE, THOMAS, Massachusetts, freeman 1681.
NOCK, THOMAS, New-Hampshire, and probably of Dover, d.
29 Oct. 1666. One of his descendants, James Nock, an elder of
the church at Durham, was killed by the Indians in 1724. Bel-
knap, ii. Hist. N. H.
NODDLE, WILLIAM, from whom Noddle's Island takes its
name, was admitted freeman in 1633. Savage, i. Winthrop, 39, 80.
NORCROSS, JEREMIAH, Watertown 1642, d. in 1657, leav-
ing sons, Nathaniel and Richard. JOHN, Cambridge 1642. NA-
T'HANIEL, freeman 1643, was educated at one of the universi-
ties in England, and was a preacher, and received a call to be the
minister at Nashaway, in 1644 ; but probably returned to England,
and may have been the one ejected from his living at Walshingham,
in Norfolk, after the restoration. Calamy. Winthrop. RICH-
ARD, Watertown, son of Jeremiah, m. Mary Brooks, 24 June, 1650.
THOMAS, Watertown, was admitted freeman 1652.
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NORDEN. NORTON.
NORDEN, •NATHANIEL, Marblehead, a captain, was rep-
resentati?e in 1689 and 1690. SAMUEL, Boston, was admitted
freeman in 1666.
NORMAN, JOHN, Salem 1637, Marblehead 1648, d. in 1673,
8B. about 60. He left a wife, Arabella, and children. Felt. Dana.
RICHARD, Salem, came to N. E. as early as 1627, and died in
1683. His sons were, probably, John, above named ; Richard, b.
in 1623, and living in Marblehead in 1672, and William, of Mar-
blehead in 1648.
NORRIS, EDWARD, the fourth minister of the first church
in Salem, was admitted to the church in Boston 1639 [Records of
. First Church] ; went the same year to Salem, where he was ordain-
ed 18 March, 1640 ; was admitted freeman 13 May following ; d.
10 April, 1659, about 70 years old. Felt, Annals Salem, 200—202.
Upham, Ded. Sermon, 55, 61. EDWARD, Salem, son of the pre-
ceding, member of the church 1639, was a schoolmaster from 1640
to 1671, died in 1684, ae. 70. He left two children, Edward, bap-
tized 18 Oct. 1657, and Elizabeth. Descendants remain.
NORTH, RICHARD, one of the first proprietors of Salisbury
1640, was admitted freeman 1641.
NORTHEND, EZEKIEL, was born a. 1622, and lived in
Rowley in 1652.
NORTHUP, STEPHEN, one of the early proprietors of Provi-
dence. Coffin.
NORTHY, JOHN, an inhabitant of Marblehead in 1648, was ,
born a. 1607, and of Scituate 1670. Sometimes Nothey,
NORTQN, ||*FRANCIS, Pascataqua 1631, where he was an
agent of Captain John Mason, until about the year 1641, when he
removed to Charlestown ; was admitted freeman 1642, elected mem-
ber of the ar. co. 1643 ; captain of the militia ; representative 11
years, 1647, 1650, 1652 to 1661, excepting 1656 and 1657, d. 27
July, 1667. Johnson commemorates him as '* a man of a bold and
cheerful spirit, being well disciplined, and an able man." FREE-
GRACE, early of Saco, probably of Ipswich 1665. 2 Coll. Mass.
Hist. Soc. viii. *GEORGE, Salem, was admitted freeman in 1634,
removed to Gloucester, which he represented in 1642, 1643, and
1644. He died about 1659. George Norton, perhaps a son, was
admitted freeman 1681. JOHN, the second minister of Ipswich,
and the third of the First church in Boston, was b. at Starford, in
the county of Hertford, 6 May, 1606, was educated at the Univer-
sity of Cambridge ; came to N. E. in 1635, and settled at Ipswich
1636, removed to Boston, a. 1653, where he was installed 23 July,
1656 ; was appointed an agent by the Massachusetts colony after
* the restoration, to address Charles II. He sailed for England in
Feb. 1662, returned in September, and d. 5 April, 1663, 8B. 57,
leaving a wife, Mary, but probably no children. Mather. Allen.
Holmes. JOHN, the second minister of Hingham, was nephew
to the preceding, and son of William Norton, of Ipswich. He
grad..at H. C. 1671, was ordained 27 Nov. 1678, d. 3 Oct. 1716,
aged 66. Lincoln, History Hingham, 24. Felt, MS Letter
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NORTON. NOYES.
JOHN, Springfield, died 24 August, 1687. Rev. W. B. Sprague.
NICHOLAS, Weymouth, had sons, Isaac, b. 3 May, 1641, and
Jacob, b. 1 March, 1644. RICHARD, Boston, had a son Richard,
b. in 1649. Samuel Norton, probably a relation, d. at Boston, 28
June, 1654. WALTER, a captain, [Prince, ii. 4] was admitted
freeman, 18 May, 1631, and perhaps the Captain Norton, who was
killed by the Indians in 1634, at the same time with Capt. John
Stone. But Mr. Savage in the Index to his Winthrop makes the
name of the captain, John, WILLIAM, Ipswich, brother of the
Rev. John Norton, of Boston, was admitted freeman in 1636, and
probably d. 30 April, 1694. He had a brother Thomas, who lived
in London. Felt, MS Letter. Twenty persons of the name of Nor-
ton had grad. at the N. E. colleges in 1828.
NOR WICK, JOHN, Massachusetts, was admitted freeman 1640.
NORWOOD, RICHARD, Cambridge, d. 13 May, 1644.
FRANCIS, Gloucester 1664. John and Francis Norwood grad. at
H. C. and D. C. in 1771 and 1818 ; the latter a clergyman in Mere-
dith, N. H.
NOTT, GEORGE, was an inhabitant of Sandwich in 1637.
(See Knott.) Ten of the name of Nott had grad. at Yale and
Union colleges in 1828, one of whom. Rev Eliphalet Nott, D. D.,
presides over the last named institution.
NOWELL, ^INCREASE, Charlestown, one of the assistants
from 1630 to 1655 ; one of the founders of the church at Charles-
town 1632, secretary of the colony from 1644 to 1649, six years ; d.
1 Nov. 1655. The name of his wife was Parnell, to whom 1000
acres of land on the east side of Cochecho River, in N. H. was grant-
ed, probably after her husband's death. [Plan of the land by sur-
veyor Danforth.] His children were. Increase, b. 1630, d. 1633 ;
Samuel, the following ; Eleazar, b. and d. 1636; Increase, 2d, b.
23 May, 1640; Alexander, who grad. at H. C. 1664, freeman 1671,
and was the author of several almanacks, and d. in 1672, and per-
haps George, a member of the ar. co. in 1662. JSAMUEL, son of
the preceding, was born at Charlestown, 12 Nov. 1634, grad. at H.
C. 1653, became a preacher ; was elected an assistant from 1680 to
1686 ; went to England, and was in London in 1688. He owned
a considerable tract of land in New-Hampshire, near his mother 's,
and bounded on Newichewannock River, and Dover line. This
name is found in Mass. and N. H.
NO YE, BENJAMIN, Lynn, removed to Sandwich 1637. [Lew-
is.] This name should probably be Nye^ which is common in Sand-
wich, and its neighbourhood. Seven had grad. at the N. E. colle-
ges in 1828.
NOYES, JAMES, one of the first ministers of Newbury, was
born at Choulderton, in Wiltshire, in 1608, came to N. E. in 1634;
with Rev. Thomas Parker, with whom, after having preached near-
ly one year at Medford, he settled at Newbury in 1635, where he
d. 22 Oct. 1656, 8B. 48. He m. Sarah, eldest daughter of Joseph
Brown, of Southampton, England, by whom (whod. 13 Sept. 1691,)
he had a large frimily. He left six sons, 1. James, the following, b.
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1640; 2. lioses, b. 1643 ; 3. Joseph, b. 14 Oct. 1644 ; 4. •Thomas,
b. 10 August, 1648, m. Martha Pierce 1669, was a captain and
magistrate, and representative in 1689, 1600, and 1603; 5. John,
b. 4 June, 1649, freeman 1675, member of the ar. co. d. at Boston
1678, and perhaps fiither to Dr. Oliver Noyes, H. C. 1695 ; 6. Wil*
liam, b. 22 Sept. 1653, and 2 daughters. JAMES, minister of
Stonington, son of the preceding, was born 11 March, 1640, grad.
at H. C. 1659, began to preach at Stonington in 1664, was ordaiU'*
ed 10 Sept 1674, and baring imparted religious instruction to hit
people, above 50 years, d. 30 Dec. 1719, in his dOth year. MO^
SES, brother of the preceding, was bom at Newbury, 6 Dec. 1643^
grad. at H. 0. 1659, was ordained the first minister of Lym, Conn.,
where he d. 10 Nov. 1726, jb. 83, having spent 60 years wtth his
peofrfe. JOSEPH, Sudbury, one of the^ selectmen 28 years from
1662, d. 16 Nov. 1717. He m. for 2d wife, Mary, widow of Major
Simon Willard, 14 July, 1680. She d. 28 Dec. 1715. Shattuck.
•NICHOLAS, brother of Rev. James Noyes, of Newbury, was b.
about 1616, and came from Wiltshire to N. £. in 1634, and was
admitted freeman 1637, settled in Newbury, which he represented
in 1660, 1679, and 1680. He d. 9 Nov. 1701, se. 85. He had
sons, John, b. 20 Jan. 1646, m. Mary Poor, 1668 ; Nicholas, born
1647 ; Cutting, born 1649 ; Timothy, born 1655 ; James, b. 1657 1
Thomas, b. 1663, and 7 daughters. NICHOLAS, the seventh
minister of the first church in Salem, was son of the preceding, and
was b. at Newbury, 22 Dec 1647, grad. at H. C. 1667, preached
13 years at Haddam, was ordained 14 Nov. 1683, and d. 13
Dec. 1717, te. 70, having never married. 1 Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc.
X. Index. •PETER, Sudbury, was admitted fireeman 1640, rep^
resentative 1640, 1641, and 1650, a selectman 21 years, and deit-
con of the church, d. 23 Sept. 1657. Shattuck. •PETER, Sud*
bury, freeman 1673, was elected representative in 1679, 1690, and
1691. •THOMAS, Sudbury 1640, was a selectman 12 years, and
representative at the 2d session in 1664. He died 7 Dec. 1^66.
Thirty-four of the name had grad. at the N. E. colleges in 1828.
NURSE, FRANCIS, Salem-Village, had children, John, Sarah,
Rebecca, Samuel, Francis, Mary, Elizabeth, and Benjamin. Their
mother, Rebecca, was hung in the witchcraft delusion, 19 July,
1692.
NUTT, MILES, fi-eeman in 1637, might be of Woburn in 1653
[See 3 Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. i.] ; died at Maiden, 2 July, 1671.
NUTTER, JANTHONY, an elder of the church at Dovi»
1662, was admitted fireeman 1666, and was appointed a counsellor
of N. H. in 1682. HATEVIL, an inhabitant of Dover in 1649.
NUTTING, JOHN, freeman 1660, was a petitioner for the
grant of Chehnsford in 1653. NATHANIEL, Groton, a. 1677.
OAKES, •EDWARD, Cambridge, freeman 1642, was elecc<»d
representative 15 years, between 1659 and 1682, and, in 1684, rep-
resented Concord, where he d. 13 Oct. 1689. He had sons, Uriau,
the president of H. C, Edward, and Thomas. His daughter Han-
nah m. deacon James Blood in 1657. GEORGE, Lynn, 1654, i,
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July, 16S8. He had sons, George ; John, perhaps member of the
ar. CO. 1682, and Richard. Lewis. SIMON, is named by Dr.
Holmes in his Hist, of Cambridge, as one of the proprietors in 1632.
THOMAS, Cambridge, freeman 1642, brother of Edward, d. before
1659. His children were, Thomas, b. and d. in 1648 ; Elizabeth ;
Hannah ; Thomas, 2d, baptized 20 March, 1669. *JTHOMAS,
son of Edward Oakes, was b. at (Cambridge, 18 June, 1644, grad.
at H. C. 1662,- settled as a physician in Boston ; representative in
1689, and the same year was elected an assistant. He went to En-
gland as agent for Massachusetts soon afler, and assisted in procur-
ing the new charter. He d. at Welfleet, 15 July, 1719, e. 75.
Dunton's account of his character may be found in 2 Coll. Mass.
Hist Soc. ii. URIANf the fifth minister of Cambridge and the
fourth president of Harvard College, was the son of Edward Oakes,
[Holmes, i. Annals, 4251 and was b. in England. He grad. at H.
C. 1649; soon went to England, and was the minister of Tichfield,
in Hampshire. He was silenced in 1662 ; returned to America, a.
1671/ and was installed at Cambridge, 8 Nov. 1671 ; freeman 1672,
entered upon his duties as president of H. C, 7 April, 167^ ; d. 25
July, 1681, in his 50th year. Urian Oakes, H. C. 1678, wIk^ d. 3
Nov. 1679, was probably his son, as might be, perhaps, Laurence
Oakes, a bachelor of arts, who d. at Cambridge, 13 June, 1679, ae.
18. Edward Oakes grad. at H. C. in the class of 1679, and died
young.
OAKMAN, SAMUEL, Casco-Bay 1658. Mebzar Turner Oak-
man grad. at H. C. 1771.
OBER, RICHARD, Beverly 1679, had sons, Hezekiah, b. 1681 ;
Richard, b. 1684 ; Nicholas, b. 1686. This name, written some-
times Obear, still prevails in the neighbourhood of Beverly, and is
found in New-Hampshire.
ODELL, WILLIAM, Concord 1639, had a son James, b. in
1639. JOHN, of Fairfield, Conn., in 1668. This name exists in
several parts of New-Hampshire.
ODIORNE, JOHN, Portsmouth 1660, was one of the grand ju-
ry in 1686. Jotham Odiorne, a counsellor of N. H., who d. 16 Aug.
1748, ae. 73, was probably his son. Thomas Odiorne, D. C. 1791,
author of poems, was from this family.
ODLIN, 1 1 JOHN, one of the first settlers of Boston, was proba-
bly member of the ar. co. in 1638, whose name is spelled by Whit-
man, Audlin. He d. 18 Dec. 1685, sb. 83 years, leaving sons, Eli-
sha, John, and Peter. Elisha was b. 1 July, 1640, freeman 1675^
lived in Boston, and was father of Rev. John Odlin, of Exeter, N.
a, who was h. 18 Nov. 1681, grad. at H. C. 1702, d. 1754, ». 72,
whose sons Elisha and Woodbridge grad. at H. C. 1731 and 1738
and were ministers of Amesbury and Exeter. Peter, the youngest
son of the first John, was b. 2 August, 1646, and lived in Boston.
This name is still found at Exeter, and some other parts of New-
Hampshire.
OFFLEY, IIDAVID, member of the ar. co. 1638. Thomas
Offley was collector of Salem in 1689. J'elt, Annals, 291.
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06DEN. OLIVER.
OGDEN, |JOHN, Connecticut, was elected an assistant of the
colony in 1656. There was an Ogden of Fairfield, Conn., in 1668.
Hon. David Ogden, a judge of the superiour court of Conn. grad. at
Y. C. in 1728.
OLDAGE, RICHARD, Windsor 1640. 1 Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc.
V. 168.
OLCOTT, or ALCOTT, fJOHN, is named as one of the coun-
cil of Mass. in 1692. More than ten of the name of Olcott have
received the honours of the N. E. colleges.
OLDHAM, *JOHN, arrived at Plymouth, in the ship Ann, in
July, 1623, where he lived a short time ; went to Nantasket, now
Hull, and from thence to Cape Ann. He was admitted freeman,
18 May, 1631, when he probably resided in Watertown, which town
he represented in the first general court of Mass. in 1634. He was
killed in his bark at Rhode-Island, by the Indians, in August, 1636.
It is said his posterity still remain in Mass^husetts, and one of the
name of John Oldham died at Danvers in 1827. 2 Coll. Mass. Hist.
Soc. X. Index. RICHARD, Cambridge, d. before 1658, leaving a
widow, Martha (whom. Thomas Brown, of Cambridge) and sons, Sam-
uel, freeman in 1673, and John. THOMAS, Scituate 1650. Coffin.
OLIVER, II JAMES, Boston, son of elder Thomas Oliver, [Prince,
ii. Annals, 70] was admitted freeman 1640, member of the ar. co.
1637, and its captain from 1656 to 1666. JOHN, Boston, brother
of the preceding, and according to Mr. Savage, [i. Winthrop, 96]
was the graduate at H. C. in 1645. He was admitted freeman in
1640, and d. 12 April, 1646 [Interleaved Almanack, 1646] ; a wor-
thy and excellent character. See Winthrop, ii. Hist. N. E. 257.
His wife was Elizabeth, daughter of John Newgate, and she after-
wards m. Edward Jackson. (See Jackson.) His children were,
1. John, b. 1638, d. 1639; 2. Elizabeth, b. 28 Feb. 1640, m. Enoch
Wiswall ; 3. Hannah, b. 1642, d. 1653; 4. John, 2d, b. 15 April,
1644, lived in Boston ; was a member of the ar. co. 1680, and had
sons, Sweet, b. 1668; John, b. 1688; William, b. 1694; Samuel/
b. 1698; Hammond, b. 1699; Ebenezer, b. 1703, and 4 daughters ;
5. Thomas, b. 10 Feb. 1646, lived in Newton, where he d. 2 Nov.'
1715, having been a representative, counsellor, and deacon. He m.
Grace Prentice, 1667, and Mary Wilson in 1682, and had children,
Grace; Elizabeth; John; Hannah; Thomas; Samuel, b. 1679, John,
2d; Nathaniel, b. 1 Feb. 1685, perhaps the graduate 1701, and Ma-
ry, most of whom d. in infancy. ||*JOHN, Boston, freeman 1634,
was member of the ar. co. 1637, and representative at the May ses-
sion in 1638. It is supposed that he ws^ brother to Elder Thomas
Oliver. He removed to Newbury, and d. in 1642. Joanna, his
widow, m. Capt. William Gerrish. His only daughter, Mary, b. 7
June, 1640, m. Samuel Appleton, of Ipswich, in 1656. ||PETER,
son of Elder Thomas, was an eminent merchant in Boston, admit-
ted freeman 1640, member of the ar. co. 1643, its captain in 1669,
d. in 1670. His sons were Nathaniel, b. 8 March, 1652, who was
one of the council of safety in 1689, and d. in Boston, 5 April, 1704 ;
Peter, b. 3 March, 1655, grad. at H. C. 1675 ; James, b. 19 March,
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eral sons, of whom John, who settled in Barnstable, is the common
ancestor of civilians, statesmen, and orators ot celebrity. 2 Coll.
Mass. Hist. Soc. iv. 248. Sixteen of the name had grad. at H. G.
in 1828. RICHARD, Dover 1662, killed 27 June, 1689, at the
same time with Major Waldron. He had sons, Richard ; Stephen,
who m. Mary Pitman, 16 April, 1674 ; Solomon, b. 1663, d. 1664;
Experience, b. 1666, and perhaps others. Descendants remain in
New-Hampshire.
OTLEY, ABRAHAM, Lynn 1641. ||ADAM, Lynn 1641,
member of the ar. co. 1641, married a daughter of John Humfrey.
I^wis.
OWEN, JOHN, New-Haven 1642. Rev. John Owen, H. C.
1723, was minister of Groton, Conn., and John Owen, perhaps his
son, grad. at Y. C. in 1756. THOMAS, Massachusetts 1641.
Savage, ii. Winthrop, 51. WILLIAM, Braintree 1651, had a son
Daniel, b. 1 Aug. 1651.
OXENBRIDGE, JOHN, the sixth minister of the first
church in Boston, was b. in Daventry, Northamptonshire, England,
30 Jan. 1609, was educated at Oxford, where he was sometime a
tutor. In 1634 he went to Bermuda and took charge of a church ;
returned to England ; in 1662 went to Surrinam, and from thence to
Barbadoes. He came to N. E. in 1669, was admitted freeman
1670, and on the 10th April was installed as colleague with Rev.
James Allen. He d. 28 Dec. 1674, s. 65. His daughter, Theo-
dora, m. Rev. Peter Thatcher. Mather. Calamy. Allen.
PACKARD, SAMUEL, Weymouth, where his son John was b.
1655, removed to Bridge water, and is the great ancestor of Rev.
Asa Packard, of Marlborough, Harv. Coll. 1783, his brother, Rev.
Hezekiah Packard, D. D. of Wiscasset, H. C. 1787 ; Rev. The-
ophilus Packard, D. D., of Shelburne, Mass., D. C. 1796, and of
several others who have grad. at Harvard and Bowdoin colleges.
PADDLEFOOT, JONATHAN, Cambridge 1658, had children,
Mary, Jonathan, Zechariah, and Edward. The name of Paddkr
ford exists in New-England, and two have grad. at Yale College.
PADDOCK, ROBERT, Plymouth, d. 25 July, 1650. He had
sons, Robert, b. 1634; Zechariah, b. 1636; John, b. 1643, m.
Anna Jones, Swanzey, 1673.
PADDY, JOHN, Boston, d. 8 Jan. 1663. WILLIAM Plymouth
1636, a deacon of the church, removed to Boston 1651, and there
d. 24 August, 1653. He m. Alice, daughter of Edmund Freeman
in 1639. He had two sons, born in Plymouth, Thomas and Sam-
uel. Davis, Morton's N. E. Memo. 279. ||WILLIAM, Boston,
member of the ar. co. 1652, d. 11 Nov. 1653. Records of Boston.
PAGE, EDWARD, member of the ar. co. in 1661. JOHN,
came from Dedham, England, with Gov. Winthrop, in 1630, was
admitted freeman in 1631, and d. 18 Dec. 1676, s. 90. His wife
was Phebc, and he had sons, Samuel, b. 1633, and Daniel, bbrn 10
August, 1634. Savage, i. Winthrop, 47, 54. JOHN, Dedham,
was admitted freeman in 1640. *ROBERT, Salem 1637, went to
Hampton, admitted freeman 1642, representative 1668. *ROGER,
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Hampton, representative 1657. WILLIAM, Watertown, a. 1642^
d. 19 Feb. 1665. He had a son John, who d. 1642.
PAGET, THOMAS, Massachusetts, was admitted freeman 1647.
PAIGE, ABRAHAM, Boston 1665. ||NICHOLAS, was a wit-
ness to certain articles of peace, dated 15 July, 1675, in Hubbard's
Indian Wars p. 21 — 23, and probably the captain named p. 26, and
afterwards a colonel, and member of the ar. co. 1693, and its cap-
tain 1695.
PAINE, ARTHUR, a tailor of Boston, was admitted to the
church in 1639. This name is sometimes spelled Payne^ and thus
written it has 12 graduates on the different catalogues of the N. £.
colleges, besides ^ spelled Paine. EDWARD, Lynn 1637, proba-
bly removed to Exeter or Dover a. 1643. JOHN, Ipswich, from
whence he went to Nantucket, and there d. 13 July, 1677. ||*MO-
SES, Braintree, was member of the ar. co. 1644, fVeeman 1647, a
lieutenant, representative 1666 and 1668. He had Moses, b. 1646 ;
Moses, 2d, b. 1652; William, b. 1 April, 1657, and several daugh-
ters. A Moses Paine, sen., of Boston, d. 15 Dec. 1690. *ROB-
ERT, Ipswich, was born a. 1601, freeman 1641, representative
1647 to 1649, three years. Dorcas, his wife, d. 23 Feb. 1681.
Johnson [Hist. N. E. 110] calls him " a right godly man, and one
whose estate hath holpe on well with the work of this little com-
monwealth." ROBERT, perhaps son of the preceding graduated
at Harvard College in 1656, and was living in 1698. *STE-
PHEN, Hingham, freeman 1639, was representative 1641. ||STE-
PHEN, Braintree, freeman 1653, member of the ar. co. 1649^
m. Hannah Bass in 1651, and had sons, Stephen, b. 8 March, 1653 ;
Samuel, b. 10 June, 1654; and others. THOMAS, Salem, Lynn
1637, Salem, freeman 1641, died a. 1644. THOMAS, Dedham
1642, had a son Thomas, b. 1644. WILLIAM, Ipswich, freeman
1640, removed to Boston, and d. 10 Oct. 1660, leaving an only son
John, who died at sea. His daughter Hannah, was the wife of
Samuel Appleton, and died before her father. WILLIAM, a shoe-
maker by profession, was of Salem, and died a. 1660. There was
a William Paine, a proprietor of Watertown in 1642, who might be
the freeman of 1650.
PAINTER, THOMAS, Boston, a joiner, came to N. E. in 1630,
was member of the church and freeman in 1640, lived also in
Charlestown, Rowley, New-Haven, and Hingham. He came to N.
E. in 1630. Hutchinson, i. Mass. 208. WILLIAM, a captain,
Uved in Cambridge in 1635, and d. at Charlestown, 28 August,
1666.
PALFREY, JOHN, Cambridge 1658, was a constable in 1674.
His children were Rebecca, John, and Elizabeth. *PETER, Sa-
lem 1626, one of the first inhabitants of that ancient town, and its
representative in 1636. His children were, Jonathan, baptized
1636; Jehodan, b. 1636; Remember, b. 1638; Mary, b. 1639, and
perhaps others. He removed to Reading, and there d. 15 Sept.
1663. Descendants remain in the same place settled by him 200
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years, and one of them, Warwick Palfiray, esq., now fills tbe sanM
station in the government occupied by his ancestor.
PALGRAVE, RICHARD, Gharlestown 1630, was admitted
freeman 1631, had a son Increase, b. in 1634
PALMER, ||*ABRAHAM, Gharlestown, freeman 1631, was
f efuresentative at the first general court 1634, and 4 years afterwards,
and a member of the ar. co. in 1638. EDWARD, Massachusetts
1639. Savage, ii. Winthrop, 71. Hutch, i. Mass. 385. An Ed-
ward Palmer is named in a commission granted by Charles II. See
i. Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. v. 232. ||GEORGE, was a member of the
ar. CO. in 164 L *HENRY, Newbury, a. 1635, freeman 1642,
went to Haverhill, which he represented 1667, 1674, 1676, to 1671>,
six years. He d. ] 680. JOHN, Hingham, perhaps also at Scituate,
was admitted freeman in 1637. Winthrop, i. Hist. N. E. 331.
JOHN, Charlestown, d. in Aug. 1676. JOHN, Boston, a carpen-
ter, was received as a townsman 30 March, 1640, and probably the
fireeman, 2 June, 1641. j:JOHN, one of Sir Edmund Andros'
council, both in N. E. and New-York,^^ went to England, and retnrn-
ed in 1688, with a commission or appointment fi>r chief judge of the
Supreme court under Andros. He wrote an answer to the Declaration
of the Inhabitants of Boston in 1689, to which a reply was jnade.
NICHOLAS, Windsor 1640. 1 Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. v. 16a
THOMAS, Rowley 1643, d. in 1669. WALTER, constable of
Charlestown 1636, was admitted fireeman 1638. His sob Benjamin
was b. in 1642. Winthrop, i. Hist N. E. 76. ii. 345. WIULIAM,
Newbury 1637, fireeman 1638, removed to Pascataqua before 1648,
when he was one of the grand jury, and may be the same who wis
at Kittery in 1652. WILLIAM, and his son William, were of
Plymouth in 1623. Davis, Mort(»i's Memo. 383.
PANTRY, WILLIAM, Cambridge 1634, was admitted freeman
in 1635.
PARDEE, GEORGE, New-Haven, m. Martha Miles, 20 Dei
1650, and d. 1700, ae. 71, leavkig sons John, G«orge, and Josepk.
The East-Haven and North-Haven Pardees are descended firom hkn.
Dodd, East-Haven Register, 140^142.
PARDON, WILLIAM, Massachusetts, admitted fireeman 1645.
PARIS, IITHOMAS, Cambridge, fireman 1637, was member of
the ar. co. 1641, and it is said was a physician. His sob Thomas,
horn at Cambridge, 21 July, 1641, grad. at H. C. 1659, was living
in 1696, and perhaps d. 12 Sept. 1707.
PARK, JACOB, Massachusetts, freeman 1657. JOSEPH, was
one of the proprietors of Salisbury 1640. Felt. RICHARD, one
of the first proprietors of Cambridge Farms, [Lexington] 1642.
Boston News-Letter, i. 266.
PARKER, ABRAHAM, came firom England b^bte 1645, when
he was admitted fi-eeman ; settled in Woburn, and fi'om thence re-
moved to Chelmsfi>rd, where he d. 12 August, 1685. His chiUtren
wefe, Anna, b. 1645; John, b. 1647, who settled. m Chelmsibrd;
Abraiiaifi, freeman 1^2 ; Isaac ; Moses, who was bom in Cheifn»-
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PARKER.
ford, and the hther of Aaron Parker, one of whose grandsons is the
Hon. Abel Parker, of JaiFrey, N. H., was more than 20 years judge
of probate for the county of Cheshire, being appointed to that oiRce,
17 May, 1802. Two of the sons of Judge Parker, Edmund, judge
of probate, in Hillsborough county, and Joel, a counsellor at Law,
are alumni of Dart. College, and have been members of the N. H.
legislature, and another has been a member of the state senate, and
is now register of probate for Cheshire county. *AM ARIAH, was
representative of Reading in 1684. EDMUND, was one of the
proprietors of I^ancaster in 1654. Willard, Hist. Lancaster.
GEORGE, Kittery, was admitted freeman in 1652. ||HENRY,
was a member of the ar. co. in 1645. JACOB, of Chelmsford in
1655, had a son Thomas, b. 28 March, 1657. JOHN, carpenter,
Boston 1635, had sons, Thomas, b. 1635; Noah, b 1638. JOHN,
of Woburn, and one of the petitioners for the grant of Chelmsford
1653. Allen, Hist. Chelmsford. 3 Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. i. 45.
JOHN, Billerica, the first clerk of the writs, and an active man in
the early ai&irs of that town, d. at Charlestown, 14 June, 1669.
It is uncertain which of the John Parkers was the freeman in 1652.
JOHN, Cambridge-Village 1650, died 23 Oct. 1713. He had
sons, John, b. 15 Feb. 1652; Jeremiah, b. 16 Jan. 1654 ; Thomas,
b. 1 Feb. 1658; Isaac, b. 15 March, 1662; Jonathan, b. 6 Nov.
1665, who was father of Rev. Thomas Parker, of Dracut, H. C.
1718, whose son, Dr. Jonathan Parker, of Litchfield, N. H., grad. at
H. C. 1762, and was &ther of Rev. Edward L. Parker, of Derry,
N. H., who grad. at D. C. 1807. JOHN, Kittery, was admitted
fireeman 1652. JOHN, Hingham 1636. Lincoln, Hist. Hingham,
45. JOHN, who grad. at Harvard College in 1661, might have
been son of Robert Parker, of Cambridge. * JAMES, a preacher,
was admitted freeman in 1634, lived in Weymouth, and was the
representative from 1639 to 1643. He received a call to settle as
the minister of Portsmouth in Dec. 1642, which he declined. He
leftN. E. and went to Barbadoes, from whence he wrote, in 1646, a
letter to Gov. Winthrop, which is in Hutch. Coll. 155—158.
JAMES, Woburn, fireeman 1644, was one of the grantees of Bil-
lerica but does not appear to have resided there. He may be the
Captain James Parker, one of the early settlers of Groton, a dea-
con of the church, and town clerk 20 years. James Parker was one
of the committee of safety, who assumed the government when An-
dros was deposed. Hutchinson i. Hist. M^ss., 340. Joseph, John,
James, Josiah, and Samuel Parker were residents or proprietors of
Groton, a. 1678. [Shattuck.] JOSEPH, Newbury, (where his
son Joseph was b. 15 May, 1642,) went to Andover, and was one
of the founders of the church in Oct. 1645. He died in 1678, leav-
iqg besides Joseph, sons, Stephen, b. 1651, and Samuel. MAT-
THEW, Boston, d. 19 Sept. 1652. NATHAN, Newbury, d. 6
Aprils 1679. NATHAN, one of the fi>unders of the church in An-
dover 1645, d. 1685, leaving sons, John, b. 1653, d. 1738, sb. 85 ;
James ; Robert ; and Peter. John had sons, JiC^n, Nathan, Ben-
jamin and James ; the last three, proprietors of Concord, N. H. iu
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PARKER. PARKS.
1726. NICHOLAS, Boston, freeman 1634, had sons, Jonathtn,
b. 1640; Abiel, b. 1641 ; Joseph, b. 164a. |)RICHARD, a me>
chant of Boston, was admitted freeman m 1641, member of the ar.
CO. 1638. ROB£RT, butcher, Boston and Roxbury, was admitted
a member of Boston church 1634, and freeman in 1635, removed
to Cambridge. He had sons, Benjamin, John, Richard, Nathaniel,
b. 28 July, 1643. Benjamin, settled in Billerica. THOMAS^
the first minister of Newbury, the only son of Rev. Robert Parker,
was b. in 1596 ; was sometime a student at Oxford, and afterwards
pursued his studies in Ireland under Dr. Usher, and in Holland, un-
der Dr. Ames. He came to N. E. with *' several devout christians
out of Wiltshire," and arrived here in May, 1634; settled the next
year at Newbury, and died there, 24 April, 1677, in his 82d year.
Mather, [i. Magnalia, 435] says he *' lived all his days a single mem"
and that after having spent a great part of his life in *' apocalyptic
cal sttidieSy he went unto the apocalyptical virgins" THOMAS,
Lynn, freeman 1637, removed to Reading, where he had sons, Jo*
seph, ^. 1642, and d. 1644 ; Nathaniel, b. 16 May, 1651 ; Jona-
than, b. 18 May, 1656. WILLIAM, Scituato 1640, removed to
Barnstable. WILLIAM, Watertown, freeman 1641, had a son
Ephraim, b. in 1640, and may have removed to Sudbury. The an-
cestor of Judge William Parker, of Portsmouth, Hon. A. M. at H.
C. under 1722, who d. 29 April, 1781, ». 77, and of Bishop Sam-
uel Parker, H. C. 1763, who d. at Boston, 6 Dec. 1804, s. 59, was
William Parker, of Portsmouth, who m. 26 Feb. 1703, Zurviah
Stanley, who, the annalist of Portsmouth [MS Letter] says, was a
daughter to the earl of Derby. Fifly-nine persons of the name of
Parker had grad. at the N. E. colleges in 1826.
PARKHURST, GEORGE, Watertown, was admitted freeman
1643. Joseph, perhaps his son, was of Chelmsford as early as
1666, and his descendants have remained there ever since. Rev.
John Parkhurst, one of them, grad. at H. C. 1811. The earliest
graduate of the name in the U. S., was Rev. Samuel Parkhurst,
New-Jersey College 1757.
PARKMAN, ELIAS, Dorchester 1635, removed to Windsor
1636. ELIAS, of Boston, had a son Elias, b. in 1651. Rev.
Ebenezer Parkman, a native of Boston, grad. at H. C. 1721, or-
dained at Westborough, Mass., 28 Oct. 1724, d. 9 Dec. 1782, s.
80. Samuel Parkman, esq., of Boston, had 4 sons edocatod at
Harvard, Francis, grad. 1807, minister of the New North church,
Boston ; George, 1809, physician, Samuel, 1810, and Daniel, 1818,
a merchant of Boston.
PARKS, •IIWILLIAM, Roxbury, freeman 1631, was represen-
tative in 1635, and 32 years afterwards until 1679 ; member of the
ar. CO. 1638, deacon of the church, d. 11 May, 1685. Johnson^
[Hist. N. £. 110, where the name, as well as in the 2 Coll. Mass.
Hist. Soc. iv. 25, is erroneously printed Parker] who acted with
him as a representative 21 years, says, " he was a man of a pregnant
underG^tanding, and very useful in his place." Widow Ann Parks
d. in 1706, s. 93. RICHARD, Cambridge 1647. (See Pabk.)
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PARK& PARTRIDQg>
THOMAS, Cambridge-Village, had sons, Thomas, b. 1654; John,
b. 1656 ; Edward, b. 1661, and died 11 Aug. 1690.
PARMELIN, JOHN, Guilford 1650. 1 Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc*
X. JOHN, jun., GuUford 1650. Ibid. The name of Parmelee
has been common in some parts of Connecticut, and may be the
same with the preceeding. Ebenezer Parmelee grad. at Y. C.
1768, and Rev. Elisha Parmelee, H. C. 1778, was the minister of
PARMENTER, BENJAMIN, Salem 1637, b. a. 1610, was of
Gloucester in 1680. JAMES, d. at Sudbury, 21 Not. 1678. JOHN,
Sudbury, was admitted freeman in 1640. JOHN, Sudbury 1640,
son of the preceding, d. 12 April, 1666. His son Joseph was born
in 1642. ROBERT, Braintree, freeman 1650, a deacon of the
church, d, 27 June, 1696, ae. 74. Sons, John, b. 23 Oct. 1653 ;
Joseph, b. 20 Dec 1655. This name is sometimes written Par-
miter,
PARR, ABEL, Massachusetts, was admitted freeman 1641.
PARRIS, •JOHN, Groton 1677, which he represented in May,
1689, and is the first representative on record. A John Parris, of
Braintree, ul Mary Jewell, 30 Sept. 1664. ^ROBERT, Dunstable,
representative 1669. SAMUEL, the first minister of Danvers,
Ms., was son of Thomas Parris, of London, [Judge Samuel Parris]
and wafi born 1653 [Coffin] ; was educated at H. C, but did not
graduate, was ordained 15 Nov. 1689, and left the ministry in June,
1696; removed to Concord, where he lived in 1705, and in 1711
preached six months in Dunstable. In his society, and it has been
said^ in his ^unily, commenced the witchcraft infiituation in 1692.
He had two sons, Samuel, who settled in Sudbury, and Noyes, who
grad. at H. C. 1721. THOMAS, came to N. E. in June, 1683,
settled at Newbury as early as 1685, thence went to Pembroke,
Mass. He is the ancestor of Judge Samuel Parris, of Hebron, Me.,
whose only son, Hon. Albion Keith Parris, D. C. 1806, late gover-
nour of Maine, is judge of the supreme court in that state.
PARROT, ♦FRANCIS, Rowley, town clerk, was admitted
freeman 1640, representative 1640 and 1642, returned to England
and died a. 1656. JOHN, Rowley 1643.
PARSONS, HUGH, Springfield 1649, had a son Samuel, b. in
1649. See Hutchinson, i. Hist Mass. 165. JEFFREY, Glouces-
ter 1664. JOSEPH, Springfield 1646, a colonel, d. 9 Oct. 168a
His son Benjamin, born in 1649. SAMUEL, East-Hampton, L. I.
1650. THOMAS, Dedham and Medfield. Worthington, Hist.
Dedham, 23. | [WILLIAM, Boston, a joiner, was admitted to the
church in 1643, freeman 1645, member of the ar. co 1646, d. 29
Jan. 1702, ©, 87.
PARTRIDGE, ALEXANDER, came over with his wife and
family in 1645, was banished from Massachusetts, and went to
Rhode-Island. Winthrop, Hist. N. E. 251. Hutchinson, Coll.
22a GEORGE, Duxbury 1636, was one of the proprietors of
Bridgewater in 1645. JOHN, Portsmouth 1660, nti. Mary Fernald,
II Dec. 1660, and had son John, and 7 daughteis. JOHN, Med-
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PARTRIDGE. PAY80N.
field 1654. NATHANIEL, tailor of Boston, member of the
churchy W98 admitted freeman 1644. RALPH, the first minister
of Duxbury, arrived at Boston, fi-om England, 14 Noy. 1636, soon
settled at Duxbury, where he died a. 1658, having been a preacher
40 years. Davis, Morton's Memo. Allen, Biog. Diet *SAMU-
£L, Hadley, son of William Partridge, who came from Berwick,
on Tweed, to N. E. and died in Hadley, [Alden] in 1668, was rep-
resentative 1685 and 1686. He had sons, William and Samuel, b.
in 1669 and 1671. WILLIAM, Salisbury 1640, qame from Olney,
^n Buckinghamshire, England, and died in 1654, leaving a widow
Ann. His children were, John ; Hannah ; Elizabeth ; Nehemiah ;
who lived in Portsmouth, and Sarah. Coffin. WILLIAM, Med-
field, freeman 1653, m. Sarah Pierce, 23 Nov., who d. 1656. By
another wife he had sons, Nathaniel, John, and Elisha. t|WILr
LIAM, a counsellor, and the lieutenant-governour of New<^Hamp-
shire, was b. in 1655 ; lived in Portsmouth and Newbury, and d. 3
Jan. 1729, in his 75th year, and was buried at Newbury. He m.
Mary Brown, 8 Dec. 1680, and had children, 1. Richard, born at
Portsmouth, 9 Dec. 1681, was an agent in England, and was living
in London in 1749 ; 2. Nehemiah, b. 9 March, 1683 ; 3. Mary, b.
19 Oct. 1685, m. Governour Belcher, and d. 1736; 4. William, b.
1 May, 1687 ; 5. Elizabeth, b. 23 Sept. 1692.
PARY, WILLIAM, Massachusetts, was admitted fireeman 1646.
PASMORE, JAMES, Concord 1644.
PATCH, JAMES, Salem, died a. 1658. JOHN, Salem, about
1648, had children born there. W. Gibbs. NICHOLAS and
EDMUND, were admitted inhabitants of Salem in 1639. Eliza-
beth Patch, who d. 14 Jan. 1716, sb. 87, was the first female born
in Salem. Hutchinson, Hist. Mass. *THOMAS, Wenham, free-
man 1670, was representative in 1689.
PATESHALL, RICHARD, Boston 1665, freeman 1673, per-
haps the captain named in Hubbard. Richard Pateshall, Harvard
College 1735, of Boston, d. 25 Aug. 1768, e. 55.
PATRICK, DANIEL, came to N. E. as early as 1630, was ad-
mitted fireeman 1631, resided at Watertown and Cambridge ;
removed to Connecticut, and was killed by a Dutchman at ^amford
in 1643. Winthrop, ii. Hist. N. E. 151.
PATTEN, WILLIAM, Cambridge, freeman 1645, d. 10 Dec.
1668. His son Thomas settled in Billerica, and d. there in Jan.
1689, BB. 54, leaving 4 sons. His other children were, Williaun, b.
and ,d. 1646 ; Nathaniel ; Mary, and Sarah.
PATTERSON, EDWARD, New-Haven 1639, perhaps the
Pequot soldier 1637, named in 2 Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. viii. 139,
and the one who d. in 1669. EDWARD, Hingham 1655. JAMES^
Billerica 1659.
PAUL, DANIEL, Kittery 1652.
PAYBODY, WILLIAM. (See Pbabody.)
PAYSON, EDWARD, Roxbury, fi'eeman 1640, whose first wife
d. in 1641, had by a second, 'sons, John, b. 1643, freeman 1680;
Jonathan, b. 1644, a deacon of the church at Roxbury, amd d. 15
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PAYSON. PEASE.
Nov. 1719, 4nd probably others. EDWARD, the fifth minister
of Rowley, was son of Edward Payson, and was b. at Roxbury, 20
June, 1657 ; grad. at H. C. 1677, freeman 1680, was ordained 25
Oct. 1682, d. 22 Aug. 1732, ». 75. Elizabeth, his wife, d. 1 Oct.
1724, IB. 60. He afterwards m. Elizabeth, widow of Hon. S. Ap-
pleton. His scms, Samuel, H. C. 1716; Eliot; Stephen; Jona-
than ; David, and Phillips. Phillips, H. G. 1724, the minister of
Walpole, was ancestor of the several distinguished clergymen of the
name. The late Rev. Edward Payson, D. D., of Portland, was of
the fifth descent, the whole line being clergymen fi-om the, Rowley
minister. Edward, son of Dr. Payson, is an under-graduate at
Bowdoin. GILES, Roxbury, freeman 1631 , a deacon of the church,
d. 28 Jan. 1689, sb. 78. His son Samuel was b. 1641, and d. 1697.
PAYTON, BEZALEEL, Boston 1643, died about 1651. His
daughters, Mary and Sarah were b. in 1643 andf 1646. Savage, ii.
Winthrop, 336. ROBERT, Lynn 1639. Lewis.
PEABODY, FRANCIS, perhaps of Salisbury or Hampton, was
admitted freeman 1642. JOHN, was one of the proprietors of
Bridgewater 1645. •JOHN, Boxford, freeman 1674, representa-
tive 1689 to 1691, was perhaps father to Rev. Oliver Peabody, of
Natick, a native of Boxibrd, and born in 1698, grad. at H. C. 1721,
d. 2 Feb. 1752. Hon. Oliver Peabody, of Exeter, H. C. 1773, b.
at Andover, 2 Sept. 1752 is probably of this family. His sons,
twinsy grad. at H. C. in 1816, and are settled at Exeter and Spring-
field. WILLIAM, Duxbury, a. 1645, was representative at Plym-
outh, 1659. He m. Elizabeth, daughter of John Alden, and she
d. at Little-Compton, 31 May, 1717, ». 92. Sewall, New Heaven
and New Earth, 64. Bradford, Notes on Duxbury.
PEACH, ARTHUR, a soldier in the Pequot war 1636. See a
story of him in I. Mather's Indian Wars fi-om 1614 to 1675, p. 55.
Winthrop, i. Hist. N. E. 269. JOHN, Marblehead 1648, born a.
1612, had a son John, admitted freeman 1683.
PEACOCK, RICHARD, Roxbury 1638, had a son Samuel, b.
in 1639, d. at Boston 1691. William Peacock was of Dorchester
1655.
PEAKE, CHROSTOPHER, Roxbury, fireeman 1635, d. 22 May,
1666. His sons were, Joseph, b. 1644 ; probably Jonathan, who d. in
1700, and others. WILLIAM, Scituate between 1633 and 1657.
PEARSE, WILLIAM, Boston 1665.
PEARSON, •JOHN, born 1615, was perhaps at Lynn 1639;
was at Rowley 1647, when he was admitted fteeman ; represen-
tative 1678, 9 years ; was ordained deacon at Rowley, 24 October,
1686 ; d. 2Nov. 1697. His widow d. 12 Jan. 1703. He is the
ancestor of Joseph Pearson, H. C. 1758 ; Rev. Eliphalet Pearson,
LL. D., and Dr. Abiel Pearson, D. C. 1779.
PEASE, HENRY, Mass., freeman 1634. JOHN, Salem, was
fi-eeman 1637, perhaps one of the first four settlers of Martin's
Vineyard. ||JOHN, was a member of the ar. co. 1661, a captain,
and probably removed to Enfield before 1684. ROBERT, Salem
1637, member of the church 1643, d. in 1644.
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PEASMIE. PEMBERTOW.
PEASLEE, JOSEPH, Newbury, freeman 1642, removed to Ha-
Terhill, supplied the place of a minister in Amesbury as a lay
preacher, or " gifted brother," as the church calls him. He died in
1661, leaving children Joseph and Elizabeth. Coffin.
PECK, JEREMIAH, minister of Waterbury, was educated at
H. C. according to Mather [i. Magnalia 82] ; was ordained 26 Aug.
1669, d. 7 June, 1699. *JOSEPH, Hingham, was admitted free*
man 1638, representative 1639 to 1642, four years ; removed to
Rehoboth, and there d. 22 Dec, 1663. Savage, ii. Winthrop, In*
dex. Lincoln, Hist. Hingham, 45. NATHANIEL, Hingham
1635. Lincoln, Hist. Hingham, 43. ROBERT, one of the
first ministers of Hingham, admitted fireeman 1638, was ordained
28 Nov. 1638, sailed for England, with his wife and son Joseph,
27 Oct 1641. Mr. Savage supposes that he was brother to Joseph
of Hingham. Lincoln, Hist. Hingham, 23. THOMAS, Boston,
1652, had a son Joseph b. in 1656.
PECKER, JAMES, Boston, was bom in 1622. This name
exists in Mass. and N. H. James and Jeremiah Pecker grad. at
H. C. 1743 and 1757.
PECKHAM, JOSEPH, Newport 1644, was one of the founders
of the first Baptist church.
PIERCY, MARMADUKE, Salem 1637. Felt. Mr. Savage,
[i. Winthrop, 318] calls his name Perry, but ccHrrects it in hia erra-
ta, vol. ii. 398.
PELHAM, IIIHERBERT, came to N. E. 1639, and settled at
Cambridge, was member of the ar. co. 1639, fi'eeman 1645, elected
asfdstant fi-om 1645 to 1649, five years ; returned to England, resid-
ed at Brewer's Hamlet in Essex, where it is supposed he died a.
1676, had sons, Herbert, b. 3 Oct. 1645, and d. soon after ; Edward,
who grad. at H. C. 1673, and probably others. Davis, Mortal's
Memo. 467. Boston News-Letter, ii. 77. NATHANIEL, who
grad. at H. C. 1651, was probably son of the preceding, or of the
following. He was lost at sea, in 1657, with John Davis and Jona-
than luce. ^WILLIAM, was admitted fireeman in 1631, and set-
tled as early as 1640 in Sudbury, which he represented in X647,
and where he was the first captain of the military band in 1644.
Johnson speaks of his being in England when he wroto. See Hist
N E. 192.
PELL, JOSEPH, Lynn, was admitted fireeman 1638. WIL-
LIAM, Boston fireeman 1635, was disarmed in 1637, was a tallow-
ohandler. Edward, son of Edward Pell, of Boston, grad. at H. C.
1730, and was the minister of Harwich, Mass.
PEMBERTON, JAMES, came over as early aa 1630 and re-
quested to be mttde freeman, 19 Oct. that year. JAMES, Newbury
and Boston, was admitted fi-eeman 1648. His sons were John, Ix
^t Newbury, 16 Feb. 1648 ; Thomas, b. 1652, d. 1693; Joseph, b.
1655, the two last at Boston, where he probaUy d. 11 Oct. 1696.
JOHN, Boston, was admitted freeman 18 May, 1631. JOHN,
Boston, was admitted fi-eeman 1634, was a member of the chtuch,
from which he was dismissed to Newbury in 1640.
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PBNPUBTON. PftttCy.
PENDLETON, •||BRYAN, was bom a. 15W, Dame earty toN,
8. and settled at Watertown ; was admitted freemah 1634, was se^
iectiQMii of Sudbttry, wbere he also resided, two years [Shatttick} ;
representative of Watertown 1686 to 1699, 1647 and 1648, six years^
member of the ar. eo. 1646; a captain of the milHia; removed to
Portsmouth, which he represented in 1654, 1668, 1660, 1661, 1663;^
was a major of the military forces, purchased a neck of land at th6
month of Saoo River, 1658, removed thither 1665, returned to
Portsmouth 1676 ; appointed a counsellor under President Datiforth
in 1680, in which, or the following year, he died, (Folsom) leaving
one son, James, and a daughter, who married Seth Fletcher, minis-'
ter of Saco. JAMES, son of the preceding, one of the founders of
the first church in Portsmouth 1671, had, by Hannah, hiswifo, Bry-
an, b. 27 Sept. 1659; Joseph, b< Dec. 1661 ; Edmund, b. 24 June,
166- ; Ann, b. 1667 ; Caleb, b. 8 August, 1669. Some of this
family probably migrated southward. He removed to Stonington,
Conn, before 1681, where he has numerous descendants at the pres«
ent day. James Pendleton, Gent, was of the Narraganset country
in 1686.
PENHALLOW, SAMUEL, author of a Narrative of the Indian
Wars, was born at St. Mabon, in Cornwall, England, 2 July, 1665,
came to N. E. with Rev. Charles Morton in 1^6 ; went to Ports*
mouth, and there m. Mary, daughter of President Cutt, 1 July^
1687 ; was a counsellor 1702 ; judge of the superior court 1714 ;
chief justice, 1717, which office he sustained until his death, 2 Dec.
1726, ae. 61. His son John, a captain, d. before 1786. Elizabeth,
Joseph, Richard, and Susanna received legacies from his estate and
were |MrobaUy his children. Benjamin, grad. at H. C. in 1723, but
died young.
PENN, *JAMES, Boston, requested to be made freeman, 19
Oct. 1630 ; was a ruling elder of the church, representative 1648,
1649; marshall of the colony, and d. 30 Sept. 1671. Prince, ii.
Annals, 69. Hutchinson, i. Mass* 246. Felt, Annals, Salem, 77.
PENNIMAN, JAMES, Boston, freeman 1632, Braintree 1639, d.
26 Dec. 1664. He had sons, James, ar. co. 1673 ; Samuel, b. 1645,
freeman 1678 ; John, freeman 1671, perhaps Joseph, freeman 1678,
and others. Joseph Penniman, H. C. 1765, minister of Bedford, Ms.
PENTICUS, JOHN, appears in the colony records as admitted
freeman in 1640, but there is probably some error in the name.
Savage, ii. Winthrop. 370.
PEPPER, IjMICHAEL, was member of the ar. Co. 1642. ROR-
ERT, Roxbury, freeman 1643, was in Springfield as early as 1645.
A Robert Pepper d. at Roxbury in 1684.
PEPPERELL, WILLIAM, Kittery, was a native of Cornwall,
England, came to N. E. as early as 1676, m. a daughter of John
Bray, of Kittery, became a wealthy merchant, was a magistrate, and
d. 15 Feb. 1734, ». 86. He was father of Sir Waiiam Pepperell,
Bart, who d. 6 July, 1759, e. 63, whose only son Andrew, H. C.
1743, d. I March, 1751, s. 26.
PERCY, MARMADUKE. (See Pibrct.)
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FERHAM. PETERS.
PERHAM, JOHN, Chelmsford 1666. Benoni Perham, H. C.
1800, was born in Chelmsford, 14 Dec. 1777, was a lawyer, and dw
in Baltimore, 14 May, 1804, s. 26. Jonathan, another descendant,
was many years representative of Chelmsford.
PERKINS, ABRAHAM^ Massachusetts, was admitted freeman
1640. ISAAC, Massachusetts, freeman 1642. *JOHN, Ipswiofa,
was born a. 1590, came to N. £. and was admitted freeman in 1633,
settled in Ipswich 1633, representative 1636, d. 1654. He might
be the same person who arrived with Mr. Williams, 5 Feb. 1631.
See Winthrop's Hist. N. E. 42. JOHN, Ipswich 1634, son of the
preceding, was admitted freeman in 1637. WILLIAM, Ipswich
1633, [Prince, ii. Annals, 86] freeman 1634, is supposed to have
been the same who preached at Gloucester 1651 — 1655, and became
the second minister of Topsfield, and d. 21 May, 1682, s. 75, leav-^
ing sons, Tobijah, John, Timothy, probably William, who d. at
Topsfield in 1696, and five daughters who all married. ||*WIL^
LI AM, Weymouth, was member of the ar. co. 1638, representative
1644, and leader of the military band, according to Johnson,. Hist.
N. E. 191. There was a William Perkins, of Roxbury, whoee son
William d. in 1639. Forty-two persons of the name had grad. in
N. E. in 1826.
PERLEY, ALLEN, came from Wales, and landed at Cbafles-
town, 12 July, 1634, settled in Ipswich in 1636, and was admitted
freeman 1642. Coffin. *JOHN, Boxfbrd, was representative from
1689 to 1691.
PERRY, IIARTHUR, Boston, freeman 1640,. was the towD
drummer, [Snow, Hist. Boston, 116] member of the ar. co. 1638^
and d. 9 Oct. 1652. ' Two of his sons were, Seth, b. 1639. admitp^
ted member of the ar. co. 1662, and John, born 1642. FRANCIS,.
Salem, 1637, born a. 1608, was a wheelwright^ and removed from
Salem. JOHN, Roxbury, freeman 1633, d. 27 Sept. 1642L His
son John was b. 1639. Samuel Perry d. at Roxbury in 1706.
Obadiah Perry, freeman 1678, was one of the founders of the church
at Dunstable. WILLIAM, Scituale 1638. WILLIAM, a propri-
etor of Watertown in 1642, might be the William Pary freeman in
PESTER, WILLIAM, Salem 1637. Felt.
PETERS, ANDREW, Ipswich 1665, perhaps the same who d.
at Andover 1713, se. 77, having had sons, Andrew, William,. John,
and Samuel. Abbot, Hist. Andover, 37. Rev. Andrew Peters, of
Middleton, who d. in 1756, was a descendant. HUGH, the fi>urth
minister of Salem, was born at Fowey in Cornwall 1^99^ was edu-
cated at Trinity College, came to N. E. 6 Oct. 1635, took charge
of the church at Salem, 21 Dec. 1636, sailed for England as an agent
of the colony, 3 August, 1641, and was executed for high treason,
16 Oct. 1660, aged 61. John Winthrop of Conn., m. one of bis
daughters. Another was baptized at Salem 1640. His widow, a
Becond wife, came to N. E. afler his execution. THOMAS^ min-
ister of Saybrook, brother of the {Nreceding, was a minister in Corn-
wall, England, from whence he was driven by Sir Ralp^ Hopton in
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the lime of the civil wars ; came to N. £. and commenced a settle-
ment at Pequot River with John Winthrop in 1646. He remained
here but a short time, being called back to his people, to which he
returned in 1647. Winslow, N. E. Salamander Discovered. WIL-
LIAM, Boston, is said in the life of Hugh Peters, a work which it is
hazardous to quote, to have been a brother of the preceding, and to
have had sons, John, Andrew, Thomas, William, Samuel, and Jo-
seph. Samuel Peters, Hist, of Hugh Peters.
PETTINGILL, RICHARD, came from Wales, [Coffin] settled
in Salem, admitted to the church and freeman 1641, removed to
Newbury, and there died.
PETTITT, THOMAS, Exeter 1639.
PETTY, JOHN, Springfield, d. 18 March, 1680. The name of
Pattee exists in N. H.
PEVERLY, JOHN, Pascataqua 1631. Descendants probably
remain. Thomas Peverly, D. C. 1818, a lawyer in Northumber-
knd, N. H., d. 18 April, 1829, se. 32.
PHELPS, GEORGE, Dorchester, freeman 1636, went to Wind-
sor with Mr. Warham. SAMUEL, Dorchester, a. 1630, removed to
Windsor with the preceding. |*WILLIAM, Dorchester, freeman
1631, came to N. E. 1630, was representative at the first court
1634 ; removed to Windsor, and was elected a magistrate in 1636.
Twenty-five of the name had grad. at the N. E. colleges in 1826.
PHESE, WILLIAM, Massachusetts, freeman 1643. Savage,
ii. Winthrop, 373.
PHILBRICK, JOHN, Hampton 1650, was lost with his wife in
a boat going from Hampton in 1657. Thomas Philbrick, ofHamp-
ton, admitted freeman 1668, was constable in 1684, when there
were James, Jonathan, and Samuel Philbrick residing in that town.
THOMAS, Watertown, a proprietor in 1641, was probably after-
wards of Hampton, and died there in 1667. ROBERT, Ipswich,
was one of the Pequot soldiers..
PHILLIPS, GEORGE, the first minister of Watertown, born
at Raymond in Norfolk, came over with Gov. Winthrop, and arrived
here, 2 June, 1630, admitted freeman 1631 ; d. 1 July, 1644, hav-
ing been the minister there 14 years. His wife d. at Salem, soon
after he landed, and by another wife, who d. 27 Jan. 1681, he had
Zorobabel, b. 5 April, 1632 ; Jonathan, b. 16 Nov. 1633 ; Theophi-
lus, b. 28 June, 1636; Awbett, [?] who d. 1638 ; Obadiah, b. 1642.
SAMUEL, minister of Rowley, son of the preceding, was born in
Boxford, England in 1625, grad. at H. C. 1651, was ordained col-
league with Rev. Ezekiel Rogers^ and d. ^2 April, 1696, s. 71.
He m. Sarah, daughter of Samuel Appleton, of Ipswich. She died
15 July, 1713, SB. 86. His children were, Sarah, Samuel, George,
Elizabeth, Dorcas, Mary, and John. George grad. at H. C. 1666,
and was minister of Brookhaven, L. I. 42 years, d. 1739, se. 75.
Samuel, b. 23 March, 1658, was a goldsmith in Salem, and m. Ma-
ry, daughter of Rev. John Emerson, of Gloucester, had two sons and
four daughters. The eldest son was Rev. Samuel Phillips, of An-
dover, b. 28 Feb. 1690, grad. at H. C. 1708, wasord. 17 Oct. 1711,
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d. 5 June, 1771, having had 5 children, of whoiki were Smmtelf Ix
13 Feb. 1713, grad. at H. C. 1734, a counsellor. of Mass. d. 21 Au-
gust, 1790, ffi. 76; John, b. 27 Dec. 1719, grad. at H. C. 1735, a
counsellor of N. H. and the founder of Exeter Academy, d. in Aprils
1795, SB. 76, and William, b. 25 June, 1722, who was father of th6
late munificent patron of our charitable and religious institutions^
Lieut Gov. William Phillips, who d. at Boston, 26 May, 1827, ».
77. Lieut. Gov. Samuel Phillips, H. C. 1771, who d. 10 Feb. 1802,
aged 50, was son of Samuel, the eldest son of Rev. Samuel Phillips.
John Phillips, H. C. 1788, the first mayor of the city of Boston, who
d. 29 May, 1823, was, it is believed, from this &mily. GEORGE,
Windsor 1640. 1 Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. v. 168. ||HENRY, Ded-
ham, was admitted freeman in 1638, member of the ar. co. 1640,
was solicited to become a candidate for the ministry ; was an en-
sign, and in 1657 resided in Boston, perhaps the representative of
Hadley in 1672. Savage, ii. Winthrop, 86. Worthington, Hist,
Dedham, 19, 42. Whitman, Hist. Ar. Co. Coll. N. H. ffist. Soe. ii.
JOHN, Dorchester, requested to be made freeman, 19 Oct. 1630,
and admitted to the oath 1632, perhaps the following. JOHN,
Boston, one of the founders of the 2d_ church, bought of George
Cleaves, his house, lands, &c. at Falmouth in 1659. [Folsom.] His
son John was b. in Boston 1635. |||*JOHN, Charledtown, freeman
1673, member of the ar. co. 1680 ; its captain 1685, representative
from 1683 to 1686, 4 years, one of the council of safety 1689, co-
lonel of the militia, treasurer of the province ; one of the first coun**
sellors under the new charter 1691, and continued in office until
1716 ; and judge of the inferior court, d. 20 March, 1725, a^d 94.
JOHN, Marshfield, was killed by lightning, 31 July, 1658. Davia,
Morton's Memo. 279. NICHOLAS, Weymouth 1640, d. Sept.
1672 aged 61, leaving, children, Richard, Joshua, Benjamin, Albie,
Experience, and Hannah. He had a brother Henry. NICHOLAS,
Boston died in 1656. | [THOMAS, was a member of the ar. co.
1644. WALTER, Wiscasset, a. 1661. 1 Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc.
vii. 169. WILLIAM, Saco 1659, was appointed a magistrate in
1665, by King Charles' Commissioners, was a major in 1675. His
habitation was assaulted by the Indians, 18 Sept. 1675, and soon
after burnt by them. WILLIAM, Charlestown 1640, had children,
Phebe, b. 1640; Nathaniel, b. 1642; Mary, b. 1644. His wife d.
1646 IIZECHARIAH, Boston, member ar. co. 1660, was killed
by the Indians at Brookfield in August, 1675. His son Zechariah
was b. 1656. Wheeler's Narrative in Coll. N. H. Hist. Soc. ii. 9.
PHILPOT, WILLIAM, Boston, member of the church 1643.
PHINNEY, ISAAC, Medfield 1657. Elias Phinney, counsel-
lor at law, Charlestown, grad. H. C. in 1801.
PHIPPEN, DAVID, Boston, freeman 1036, afterwards of Hing-
ham. David Phippen d. at Boston, 24 Dec. 1702. JOSEPH,
Hingham 1637, Boston, freeman 1644.
PHIPPS, JAMES, came from Bristol, England, and settled at,
or near Pemaquid, [Bristol, Me.] before 1649, had 26 children
by the same wife, 21 of them being sons. C. Mather. SOLO-
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MON, Charlestown, freeman 1642, d. 25 July, 1671. Samuel,
perhaps his son, grad. at H. C. 1671, was register of deeds and clerk
of the eourt common pleas Middx., d. in 1725. § J WILLI AM, son
of the preceding, was born at Pemaquid, 2 Feb. 1650, was made a
knight by James II, a. 1687, was one of the assistants in 1690, was
appointed the first governour under the charter of William and Ma-
ry, in 1691, arrived in N. E. 14 May, 1692, was removed from the
government ; went to England in 1694, and d. in London, 18 Feb.
1695, s. 45. His nephew Spencer Bennet, who adopted the name
of Phips, grad. at H. C. in 1703, was lieutenant governour of Mass.
and d. 4 April, 1757, ae. 73, whose son William grad. H. C. 1728.
PICKARD, ♦JOHN, Rowley, a. 1646, representative 1660, d.
. 1697, «. 75. Jane, his widow, d. 20 Feb. 1716, sb. 89. He had
sons John and Samuel, and 6 daughters. His descendants still re-
main at Rowley, and Samuel Pickard, esq., has been a representa-
tive. There was an Edmund Pickard of Pascataqua, a. 1661, who
came from Northam, England.
PICKERAM, JOHN, Watertown, d. 10 Dec. 1630. Shattuck.
PICKERING, JOHN, a carpenter, probably came to N. E. in
1630, was of Ipswich in 1634, was admitted an inhabitant of Salem,
7 Feb. 1637, and died in 1657. John, perhaps his son, d. in Salem,
5 May, 1694, se. 57, leaving sons, John, Benjamin, and William.
He was the ancestor of the late Hon. Timothy Pickering, several of
whose sons have grad. at H. C. JOHN, Cambridge, where his
daughter Lydia was b. 5 Nov. 1638, probably went to Portsmouth,
as early as 1640, and died there, 18 Jan. 1669. •JOHN, Ports-
mouth, son of the preceding, was a captain, representative 1691 at
Boston, and speaker of the N. H. assembly. He m. Mary Stanyan,
10 Jan. 1665, and had 1. John, b. 1 Dec. 1666, m. Elizabeth Mun-
den, 17 July, 1688; 2. Mary, b. 1668 ; Thomas; Sarah ; Sarah 2d,
and perhaps others. He was the ancestor of the Hon. John Pick-
ering, of Portsmouth, who grad. at H. C. 1761, and probably of
William Pickering, esq. of Concord, N. H. who grad. atH. C. 1797.
PICKETT, JOHN, Salem 1648. Two of the name of John
Pickett grad. at Yale College 1705 and 1732.
PICKLES, JONAS, Scituate 1657. This name has existed in
N. E. within a few years.
PICKMAN, BENJAMIN, Salem 1661, m. Elizabeth, daughter
of Captain Joseph Hardy 1667, had 4 sons and 3 daughters and d.
in 1708. His wife d. in 1727, bb. 77. His son Benjamin was b. in .
1678, m. Abigail Lindall in 1704. Felt, MS Letter. NATHAN-
lEL, of Salem, as early as 1639, died 10 Sept. 1668. His wife was
Tabitha, and his children were Nathaniel, John, Benjamin, William,
Samuel, and Bethiah. Felt, Annals, 233.
PICKTON, THOMAS, Beverly 1687. Ann, his widow, d. in
1683, SB. 84.
PICKWORTH, JOHN, Salem 1637. Elias Pickworth was of
Beverly in 1687.
PID, RICHARD, Massachusetts, freeman 1642.
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PIDCOCK. PIERCE.
PIDCOCK, GEORGE, Scituate 1657. 2 Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc.
iv. 241.
PIERCE, ABRAHAM, Plymouth 1623, one of the proprietors
of Bridgewater. Davis, Morton's N. E. Memo. 382. 2 Coll. Mass.
Hist. Soc. vii. 138. ANTHONY, Watertown, freeman 1638, had
sons, Jacob, b. 1637 ; Daniel, b. 1639, perhaps of Groton. a. 1678.
DAVID, Massachusetts, freeman 1636. DANIEL, Watertown,
freeman 1638, removed to Newbury, and there d. 27 Nov. 1677,
leaving sons Daniel and Joshua. Joshua was b. 15 May, 1642.
He m (probably a 2d wife) Ann Milward, 26 Dec. 1654, who sur-
vived him. His estate amounted to ^1637. 10. ♦DANIEL, son
of the preceding, [Coffin] settled in Newbury, which he represent-
ed in 1682 and 1683 ; was a captain ; one of the council of safety
1689; colonel of one of the Essex regiments of militia. He d. 22
Jan. 1704. He had sons, Joshua, b. 1671, George, b. 6 March,
1682, and Daniel, who d. 2 Sept. 1690. His epitaph, still legible, is,
** Here lies interred a soul indeed,
Whom few or none excel ;
In grace if any him exceed,
He'll be unparallerd."
GEORGE, Boston, died 7 Dec. 1661. ISAAC, Massachusetts,
admitted freeman 1632. JOHN, Dorchester, freeman 16BI, had
sons, Joseph, b. in 1631 ; Nehemiah, b. 1639. His wife d. in 1639.
JOHN, Watertown, freeman 1638, was probably one of the propri-
etors of Lancaster, d. at Watertown, 19 Aug. 1661. JOHN, Hing-
ham 1646. JOHN, Boston, received as a townsman, 28 Feb. 1642,
perhaps freeman in 1648. JOHN, was admitted an inhabitant of
Boston in 1657, [Snow, Hist. Boston; 60] and perhaps d. 17 Sept.
1661. James Pierce, a young man belonging to Boston, was killed
by lightning, in Plymouth harbour, in 1660. Davis, Morton's Me-
mo. 284. JOHN, Gloucester 1664. Spelled^Pearw. *JOHgN, was
the representative of Woburn at two sessions in May, 1689. MARK,
Cambridge 1642. MICHAEL, Scituate 1647, a captain, was slain
with 50 English and 20 Cape Cod Indians, in Philip's war, March,
1676. He was killed near a small brook, called Abbot's Run,
which empties into Patuxet, near Providence. Hubbard, Ind. Wars,
64. 2 Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. iv. 245. ||NEHEMIAH, Boston,
member of the ar. co. 1671, d. in 1691. ROBERT, Dorchester
1640. His widow Ann, died 31 Dec. 1695, aged about 104 years.
ROBERT, Woburn, freeman 1650. 3 Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. 1.
45. The Chelmsford Pierces being from Woburn, he may be the
ancester of Gov. Benjamin Pierce, of N. H., a native of Chelmsford.
THOMAS, Charlestown, freeman 1635, died 7 Oct. 1666. There
was a Thomas Pierce (perhaps the same) in Woburn, in 1643.
WILLIAM, the captain of the ship Lyon, who wrote his name
Feirse, was the author of the first almanack [for 1639] published in
North-America. He was killed at Providence, one of the Bahama
Islands, in 1041, Savage, ii. Winthrop, Index. Prince, [ii. An-
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nals, 69] who erroneously regards him as a member of the Boston
churchy says he was ancessor of Rev. James Pierce, a well known
writer and English divine, who d. 1730. WILLIAM, a gentleman
of high repute in Boston, arrived there in the ship Griffin, 4 Sept.
1633, was admitted freeman 1634, was one of the selectmen, and
d. a. 1661 or 1669. Savage, i. Winthrop, 109. There was one of
this name in Boston in 1665, who wrote his name Pearse, Deed
of Conveyance.
PIERPONT, JAMES, came from England, and d. at Ipswich,
leaving two sons, John and Robert. Sarah Pierpont's deposition,
1724. JAMES f minister of New-Haven, son of John Pierpont, of
Roxbury, and was born a. 1661, grad. at H. C. 1681, was ordained
2 July, 1685, d. 22 Nov. 1714. JONA THAN, the fourth minis-
ter of Reading, was born at Roxbury, 10 June, 1665, grad. at H. C.
1685, was ordained 26 June, 1689, d. 2 June, 1709, ae. 44. He
m Eliz. Angier, 29 Oct. 1691. Two of his sons were, Jonathan,
b. 14 Sept. 1695, grad. at H. C. 1714, and Joseph, b. 13 Oct. 1706.
*JOHN, Roxbury, son of James Pierpont, of Ipswich, was admitted
freeman 1652, representative 1672, d. 30 Dec. 1690. He had sons,
John b. 22 Oct. 1652 ; James, of New-Haven ; Ebenezer, who d.
17 December, 1696; Joseph ; Benjamin, H. C. 1689, a minister in
Charleston, S. C, who d. a. 1697. ROBERT, Roxbury, brother
of the preceding, was admitted freeman 1675, and d. 16 May, 1694,
leaving a widow Sarah, living in 1724, at the age of 83. ROBERT,
was of Ipswich in 1648. Felt, MS Letter.
PIER80N, ABRAHAM, came from Yorkshire, a. 1639, be-
came the first minister of South-Hampton, L. I. 1640 ; went to
Branford, with a part of his church, and from thence, in 1667, to
Newark, N.J., [Rev. Mr. Gillit] where he is said to have d. about
1681. [Thomas Day, esq., MS letter.] His descendants reside
in New- York, New-Jersey and Connecticut, twelve of whom have
grad. at the colleges in those states. ABRAHAM, son of the pre-
ceding, grad. at H. C. 1668, was ordained 4 March, 1672, at New-
ark, as colleague to his father, removed to Connecticut in 1692,
settled at Killingworth in 1694, was appointed the first rector of
Yale College in 1701, and sustained the office until his death, 5
May, 1707. His son. Rev. John Pierson, Y. C. 1711, was the min-
ister of Woodbridge, N. J., where his descendants still remain.
BARTHOLOMEW, whose name is spelled Person, and perhaps
Porsune, in the list of freeman [Savage, ii. Winthrop, 375] under
1648, was of Watertown in 1640, and of Woburn in 1653. His
son Bartholomew was b. in 1641. | {GILES, member of the ar co.
1647. JOHN, Rowley. (See Pearson.)
PIGG, THOMAS, Roxbury, freeman 1634, d. 39 Dec. 1643.
The singular cognomen ofPighogg is found in the Boston records,
one of this name, dignified with the title of Mr,, being received as
a townsman, 28 Feb. 1653.
PIGGDEN, THOMAS, Lynn 1647. Lewis.
PIKE, JOHN, Newbury 1635, removed to Salisbury, and d. 29
May, 1654, leaving sons, John, of Newbury, and Robert, of Salis-
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bury. *JOHN, Newbury, son of the preceding, was perl^aps the
freeman of 1647, whose name is entered James ; was the represen*
tative in 1657 and 1668. He went to Woodbridge, N. J., 1669,
and was one of the first and most active settlers of that town,
[4jialectic Magazine, No?. 1814] was several years a ma^strate.
His children, b. at Newbury, were, Joseph, b. 1638 ; John, 13 Jan.
1641; Hannah, 1647; Mary; Ruth; Samuel, 1655; Thomas,
1657. The late Ge^neral Z. M. Pike, was one of his descendants.
^JOSEPH, Newbury, son of the preceding, was b. 26 Dec. 1638,
was represenitaiive from 1960 to 1692, 3 years, and a deputy-sheriff.
He was killed by the Indians, 4 Sept. 1694. His sons were, John,
Thomas, Joseph, and Benjamin. Rev. James Pike, H. C. 1725,
the father of the distinguished Nicholas Pike, A. A. S., was a
grandson. JOHNy minister of Dover, was son of the following,
and b. 15 May, 1653, at Salisbury, grad. at H. C. 1675, was or<
daiaed successor to the second Rev. John Rayner, 31 August, 1681,
and d. 10 March, 1710, m. 57. *fROBERT, son of the first
named John Pike, was born a. 1616, came with his father to N. E.
before 1735, settled at Newbury, was admitted freeman 1637, went
to Salisbury, which he represented in 1648, and 7 years afterwards.
He was a lieutenant in 1647, captain 1663, major in 1788 ; elected
assistant from 1682 to 1686, one of the council of safety 1689, and
one of the first council under the charter of William and Mary
1692. This useful and respectable man d. 12 Dec. 1706, sb. 90.
Sarah, his wife, d. 1 Nov. 1679, and his widow, Martha, d. 26 Feb.
1713. His children were, Sarah, b. 1641 ; Mary, 1643 ; Dorothy,
1645 ; Mary, 2d, 1647 ; Elizabeth, 1650 ; John, 1653, and Rob-
ert, 1655.
PILSBURY, WILLIAM, was born a. 1615, came from Stafford-
shire, and settled at Dorchester as early as 1642, from thence went
to Newbury 1651, perhaps admitted freeman 1668, and d. 21 June,
1686, as. 71. His sons were. Job, b.-at Dorchester 1643, freeman
1670 ; Caleb, b. at Newbury, 28 Jan. 1654, d. 24 July, 1680 ; Wil-
liam, b. 27 July, 1656 ; Increase, b. 1660. Descendants are v^y
numerous.
PINCHIN, THOMAS, Scituate. (See Ptnchon.)
PINDAR, JOHN, Watertown, d. 14 April, 1662. Spelled also
Pinter, JOHN, Ipswich 1648.
PINGRY, *MOSES, Ipswich 1648, was bom a. 1610; repre-
sentative 1665, deacon of the church, d. in Jan. 1695. AARON,
perhaps a brother, was of Ipswich in 1648.
PINION, NICHOLAS and ROBERT, were of Lynn in 1647.
THOMAS, Sudbury 1661. Thomas and Nicholas Pinion were of
New-Haven after 1670.
PINNEY, HUMPHREY, Dorchester, freeman 1684, went to
Windsor with Rev. John Warbam. Norman Pinney grad. at Y.
C 1823
PIPEk, NATHANIEL, Ipswich 1666. Asa Piper, H. C. 1778,
b. at Concord, Ms., 31 Dec. 1762, was ordained at Wakefield, N.
H. 1785.
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PITCHER^ ANDREW, Dorchester, admitted to the ehuireh
1641, was freeman same year. Rey. Nathaniel Piich^r^ R. 0. 1703,
was minister of the 1st ohureh ia Seituate^ and d^ S7 Sept. 1723.
PITFORD, PETER, Marbiehead 164a
PITKIN, WILLIAM, Connecticut, was sent by that colony in
1693, to Gov. Fletcher of New- York to negooiate terms irespecting
the militia. See Trumbull, i. Hist. Conn. 390—393.
PITMAN, JOSEPH, Chariestown, died 87 Oct. 1658. THO-
MAS, Marbiehead 1648.
PITNEY, JAMES, Boston 1652. Savage, MS note.
PITT, WILLIAM, Plymouth 1623. Davis, Morton's N. E.
Memo. 378. It appears that he was b* about 1502. Perhaps the
one of Hingham under Pitts.
PITTS, EDMUND, Hingham, came over 1639, with his brother
Leonard Pitts, and was admitted fVeeman the next year. His son
John was b. 1653. Mr. Coffin [MSSl says a John Pitts d. at Ips-
wich, 20 May, 1653. WILLIAM, Hingham 1638. Winthrop
[ii. Hist. N. E. 305] mentions a Pitt, who, with [Thomas] Johnson,
was endangered in a tempest, while towing a ** great raft of masts
and planks" to Boston, the day before a fast in 1646.
PLACE, PETER, Bostcm 1642, freeman 1646, had a son Jo*
seph, born in 1646. THOMAS, Massachusetts, freeman 1640.
WILLIAM, a gunsmith of Salem 1637, d. 15 April, 1646.
PLAISTED, JOHN, New-Hampshire, a. 1679, was speaker of
the house of representatives. *ROGER, Kittery, brother of John
was representative 1663, 1664, and 1673, was a military officer.
See Hubbard and Sullivan.
PLASTOW, JOSIAH, Boston 1632. Savage, i. Winthrop, 62,
PLATT, •SAMUEL, Rowley, representative 1681. The name of
Platts has existed in N. H.
PLIMPTON, IIJOHN, Dedham, was member of the ar. co.
1643, and was probably the John Plunton, admitted freeman 1643.
Savage, ii. Winthrop, 373. He had sons, Joseph, Eleazar, and
Jonathan, b. in Medfield. THOMAS, Sudbury. (See Pltmpton.)
PLOWDEN, Sir EDMUND, came to N. E. frcwn Virginia in
1648, and soon returned to England. Winthrop, ii. Hist. N. E.
PLUMB, JOHN, Dorchester, had a son Samuel, b. in 1659.
PLUMMER, FRANCIS, came from Wales a. 1633 to N. E. and
was admitted freeman, 14 May, 1634, settled in Newbury, and d.
17 Jan. 1672. Ruth, his wife, d. 17 July, 1647, and he m. 21
March, 1648, widow Ann Palmer, who d. 18 Oct. 1665 ; m. again
Beatrice Cantlebury, 29 Nov. 1665. His sons were the following .
JOSEPH, Newbury, was born a. 1630, m. Sarah Cheney, 23 Dec.
1652, and had, 1. Joseph, born 11 Sept. 1654, m. Hannah Sweet,
1685 ; 2. Benjamin, b. 23 Oct. 1656 ; 3. Sarah, b. 1660 ; 4. Fran-
cis, b. 1662, d. 1663 ; 5. Francis, b. 25 Feb. 1664 ; 6. Deborah, born
1665 ; 7. Nathaniel, b. 31 Jan. 1666 ; 8. Jonathan, 13 May, 1668.
•SAMUEL, Newbury, brother of the preceding, was born a. 1619,
admitted freeman 1641, and was representative in 1676. His child-
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ren were, Samuel, b. 20 April, 1647, m. Joanna Woodbury 1670 ;
Mary, b. 1649 ; John, b. 11 May, 1652 ; Ephraim, born 16 Sept.
1654, m. Hannah Jaques, 1680 ; Sylvanud, born 22 Feb. 1659, m.
Sarah Moody, 1682 ; Richard, b. 16 August 1660 ; Hannah, born
1666, and Lydia, b. 1668. Hon. William Plumer, M. C, and
governour of N. H. in 1812, and from 1816 to 1818, four years, is
a doscsndant
PLYMPTON, THOMAS, Sudbury 1643, was killed in Sudbury
fight in 1675. Shattuck. Two of the name of Sylvanus Plympton
grad. Harv. Coll. in 1780 and 1818.
POCHER, GEORGE, Braintree, d. 29 Sept. 1639.
POLLARD, GEORGE, Salem, died about 1646. WILLIAM,
Boston 1644, had sons, William, member of the ar. co. 1679, who
d. 1690 ,' John, b. 1644, and Samuel, b. 1645. A great number of
the name in N. E. are descended from Thomas Pollard, the son of
William Pollard, of the city of Coventry, England, and who came
over at the close of the 17th century, m. Sarah, daughter of Ed-
ward Farmer, and d. 4 April, 1724, leaving 10 sons and 4 daughters.
POLLY, JOHN, Roxbury, d. 2 April, 1690, ae. 71.
POMEROY, ELTWEED, freeman 1633, went from Massachu-
setts and settled in Windsor. See Increase Mather's Relation of
Troubles in N. E. with the Indians, p. 19, where the name is EU-
wood Pomeryes, Fourteen of the name had grad. in 1825, at the
N. E. colleges. ♦MEDAD, Northampton 1660, freeman 1671,
representative 1684, 1686, and 1690. JOSEPH, of Westfield in
1678.
POMFRET, WILLIAM, a lieutenant, and the town clerk of
Dover, 1665, d. 7 Aug. 1680.
POND, ROBERT, Massachusetts, freeman 1642. WILLIAM,
Dorchester in 1659. Nine of the name had graduated in N. E. in
1826.
POOLE, ELIZABETH, Taunton 1639, " the virgin mother of
that town," one of its greatest proprietors, and a chief promoter of
its settlement, d. 21 May, 1654, ae. 65. Savage, i. Winthrop, 253.
HENRY, Boston, d. 14 Sept. 1643. JOHN, Cambridge 1632,
perhaps of Lynn in 1639, and afterwards of Reading. * JONA-
THAN, Reading, was representative in 1677, perhaps freeman
1673. SAMUEL, a merchant of Boston, was member of the
church 1640. WILLIAM, Dorchester, town clerk about 40 years,
and often a schoolmaster, d. 24 Feb. 1672. Harris, Hist. Dorches-
ter. Mr. Savage [i. Winthrop, 252] names a Mr. William Pool,
who had a son Timothy, drowned at, or near, Taunton, 15 Dec.
1667.
POOR, DANIEL, Andover 1647, d. 1713, ae. 85, leaving sons,
1. Daniel, who d. 1735, se. 79, and having isons, Daniel, John, Sam-
uel, Joseph, and Thomas; 2. John. Brig. Gen. Enoch Poor, who
died in New-Jersey, 8 Sept. 1780, aged 43, was from this family.
JOHN, Newbury, born a. 1613, d. 23 Nov. 1684, had sons, John,
b. 1642; Joseph; Henry, b. 1650; Jonathan; Edward, b. 1661,
and 7 daughters. NICHOLAS, Lynn 1637. Lewis. SAMUEL,
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Newbury 1648, d. 21 Dec. 1683, had sons, Samuel, b. 1653 ; Ed-
ward, b. 1656 ; Joseph, b. 1666, aod several daughters.
POPE, JOHN, Dorchester, freeman 1634, had sons, John, b.
1635; Nathan, b. 1641. JOSEPH, Salem, member of the church
before 1636, was admitted freeman 1637, d. about 1667, leaving
sons, Joseph, Benjamin, Enos, and Samuel. RICHARD, brother
of the preceding, may be the freeman of 1635, whose name is Popp
in colony records under that year.
PORMONT, PHILEMON, a member of Boston church 1638,
was a schoolmaster, and admitted freeman in 1635. He was an ad-
herent to Rev. John Wheelright, and went with him to Exeter. He
had a son Pedaiah, b. in 1640, and Joseph Pormont, perhaps anoth-
er son, lived at Great Island in 1685.
PORSUNE, BARTH. Savage, ii. Winthrop, 375. (See Pier-
SON.)
PORTER, ABEL, Boston 1643, had a son John, b. 1643. Six-
ty-four persons of the name of Porter, 16 of them clergymen, had
grad. at the N. E. colleges in 1825. EDMUND, Roxbury, free-
man 1637. Perhaps this name should be Edward Porter, whose
son Joseph was b. at Roxbury, 1644. *JOHN, freeman 1633, was
of Salem 1637, probably representative for Hingham 1644, [Lin-
coln, Hist. Hingham, 163] united with the church at Salem in 1649,
representative in 16^, and d. in 1676, s. about 80, leaving child-
ren. Felt, Annals, 256. JOHN, Windsor 1640. 1 Coll. Mass.
Hist. Soc. V. 168. |JOHN, Rhode-Island, was an assistant from
1641 to 1644. Savage, i. Winthrop, 296. JONATHAN, Salem,
admitted to the church, 5 April, 1640, freeman 1641, afterwards of
Beverly. NATHANIEL, Massachusetts, freeman 1637. RICH-
ARD, Weymouth, freeman 1653. ROGER, Massachusetts, was
admitted freeman 1639. SAMUEL, Salem, died a. 1659.
POTTER, ANTHONY, Ipswich 1648. JOHN, New-Haven
1639, had sons, John and Samuel. Dodd, East-Haven Register
142—144. JOHN, Warwick, was a deputy in 1672. LUKE,
Concord, freeman 1638, was a deacon of the church, and d. 13 Oct.
1697. His children were Eunice ; Luke, b. 1646, d. 1661 ; Sam-
uel, b. 1648 ; Dorothy ; Judah, and Bethia. Shattuck, MS Hist.
Concord; NICHOLAS, Lynn 1634. ROBERT, Lynn, 1630,
was admitted freeman 1634. Savage, ii. Winthrop, 147. Lewis.
A Robert Potter d. at Roxbury, 17 June, 1653. Matthias Potter
was of Braintree in 1 661. VINCENT, Massachusetts 1639. Win-
throp, ii. Hist. N. E. 346. WILLIAM, New-Haven 1639, had Na-
thaniel, Joseph, Hope, and Rebecca. WILLIAM, was admitted
freeman in 1640. See 1. Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. 249.
POTTS, RICHARD, Maine 1676. Hubbard.
POULTER, JOHN, Billerica and Cambridge as early as 1657,
came from Raleigh in the county of Essex, England ; was of Cam-
bridge in 1698.
POWELL, •MICHAEL, Dedham freeman 1641, representative
1641 and 1648, removed to Boston, and taught, without ordination,
in the second church of Boston, previous to the settlement of its first
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minister. Increase Mather. His son Michael was b. at Dedham in
1645. WILLIAM, Charlestown 1637, whose wife d. 1644, had a
son Joshua, b. in 1644. A WiUiam Powell, of Salem, d. 1670.
POWER, JOHN, Charlestown 1643, had a son Peler, b. in 1643.
Those of the name of Powers will probably find in him a common
ancestor. NICHOLAS, named by Mr. ^vage, ii. Winthrop, 148,
was probably of Providence.
POWNING, HENRY, Boston, freeman 1644, had a son Henry,
b. in 1654, who was member of the ax. co in 1677.
PRATT, ANTHONY, Charlestown, requested to be made free
19 Oct. 1630. His wife died 1645. JOHN, an " experienced
surgeon," and member of Mr. Hooker's church, at Cambridge, was
admitted 1634, and, with his wife, sailed fat England on their re-
turn, and was lost in Dec. 1644, on the coast of Spain. He was
above 60 years of age, and left no issue. His apology may be found
in ^ Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. vii. 126—128. Winthrop, ii. Hist. N.
£. 239. JOHN, Connecticut, was a deputy at the first general a»>
sembly 1639. Trumbull, i. Hist. Conn. 103. JOHN, Dorchester,
admitted to the church 1642, freeman 1643. JOHN, of Hingham,
had his house burnt 15 March, 1646. Savage, ii. Winthrop, 255.
JOSHUA, Plymouth 1628. His grandson Ephraim Pratt, b. in
East-Sudbiiry, Nov. 1687, lived to !:« 1 16 years of age, and d. in
Shutesbury, Ms., in May, 1804. Michael Pratt, a son of Ephraim,
d. in 1826, ae. 103. MATTHEW, Weymouth, freeman 1651, had
a son Joseph, b. in 1639, and perhaps Samuel, freeman 1666.
PHINEAS, Plymouth 1628, removed to Charlestown, and there d.
19 April, 1680. Prince, i. Annals, 131. Records of Charlestown.
RICHARD, Charlestown 1643, had a son Thomas, b. in 1646.
THOMAS, Weymouth, freeman 1647. WILLIAM, Massachusetts,
freeman 1651.
PRAY, JOHN, Braintree, m. Joanna Dowman, May, 1657.
QUENTIN and RICHARD, were of Lynn 1645. Lewis.
PREBLE, ABRAHAM, Scituate 1637, m. a daughter of Nathan-
iel Tilden ; removed to Kittery, and was admitted freeman 1652.
Abraham Preble, esq. of York, probably a descendant, d. 14 March,
1723, in his 50th year. William Pitt Preble, H. C. 1806, of Port-
land, Me., as well as the late Commodore Preble, is of this descent.
PRENCE, 'JJTHOMAS, governour of Plymouth colony, came
from Lechlade, in Gloucester, to N. E. in 1621 in the ship Ann ;
settled at Plymouth, was chosen assistant 1635, and 20 years after-
wards ; removed to Eastham, a. 1644, of which place he was one
of the first settlers ; elected governour 1634, 1638, 1657 to 1672,
18 years. He d. 29 March, 1673, in his 73d year. His 1st wife d.
1634. By his 2d wife, he had 7 daughters, whose names are given
by Judge Davis. His son Thomas went to England, and d. young,
leaving a widow and daughter, named Susanna. Davis, Morton's
Memo. 421 — 425.
PRENTICE, HENRY, Cambridge 1640, freeman 1650, died
before 1658. Elizabeth, his 1st wife, d. 13 May, 1643. By Joan,
his 2d wife, he had, Mary ; Solomon, bom 23 Sept. 1646 ; Abiah ;
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Saipael, b. 3 Aug. 1650; Barah^ and Henry. Sotomon had sona^
Thomas, Stephen, Nathaniel, and others. His descendants are
BiuD^roas in liassachusetts. Some of them write the name Pre»*
tiss. Written in this way, and as above, 25 had grad. at the N. £«
cdleges in 1826, ten of whom had been clergymen. VALEN-
TINE, Massachusetts, was admitted freeman in 1636.
PRENTISS, *THOMAS, Cambridge-Village, [Newton] whose
name is usually spelled JPrenticCy although he wrote it Prentis, was
admitted freemaa in 1652, had children by Grace, his wife, Grace,
Thomas, Elizabeth, Mary, and John. He was representative in
1672, 1673, and 1674, commanded a company of troop, which ren*'
dered very essential service in Phillip's war. He d. 7 July, 1710,
<e. 89. Hisson Thomas m. a daughter of Edward Jackson, senr., and
died 1730, ae. 55 ; his son John also m. **♦♦* and died 1689, ». 35.
The epitaph on the grave-stone of Captain Prentiss is as follows :
** He that 's here interr'd needs no versifying,
•* A virtuous life will keep the name from dying ,*
** He '11 live though poets cease their scribbling rhyme,
** When that this stone shall moulder'd be by time."
Homer, History of Newton, in 1 Collection Mass. Hist. goc. v. 271.
PRESCOTT, JOHN, Watertown 1641, and perh^s the same
who was at Lancaster 1647, and the freeman in 1669, was ancestor
of tlie Hon. Benjamin Prescptt, a counsellor of Massachusetts, who
d* 3 Aug. 1738, e. 42, whose sons were, Hon. Oliver, M. D., bcntt
27 April, 1731, grad. at H. C. 1750, d. at Groton, 17 Nov. 1804;
Hon. James^ a senator, counsellor, and high-sheriff of the county
of Middlesex, who d. 15 Feb. 1795, and Colonel William, a di»>
tinguished officer at Bunker Hill, who died 13 Oct. 1795, aged 70l
JAMES, of Hampton, whose descendants are numerous in N. H..
had a son James, bc»n in 1671. [JONAS,] Sudbury 1646. Win-
throp, ii. Hist. N. E. 306. John and a Jonas Prescottwere admit*
ted freemen 1679. ♦JONATHAN^ Concord, freeinan 1679, wae
representative at the first general court under the new chaiter, 1692:
His son Benjamin, born 16 Sept. 1687 [Shattuck] ; grad. at H. O.
1709, was ordained at Danvers, 23 Sept. 1713, resigned 1758, died
20 May, 1777. Benjamin, his son, grad. at H. C. 1736. Seven-
teen of the name of Prescott graduated at the N. E. colleges before
1827.
PRESTON, IIEDWARD, was member of the ar. co. 1646.
JOHN, died at Boston, 6 June, 1663. ROGER, Ipswich 1648.
PRICE, * JOHN, a captain, of Salem, son of Walter Price, was
baptized 11 Jan. 1645, elected representative 1679. He m. Sarah,
daughter of Henry Wolcott, of Connecticut, in 1674, and died 13
May, 1691, aged 46. He left one son Walter. Felt, Annals, 301.
IIRICHARD, Boston, member of the ar. co. 1658, freeman 1665.
* WALTER^ a merchant, and captain, came from Bristol, England,
where he m. his wife, Elizabeth, and settled at Salem, where he
was admitted to the church, 6 March, 1642 ; freeman same year^
was representative 1665. He d. 5 June, 1674, sb. 61. His wife d.
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in 1674, aged 73. His children were, Theodore ; John ; William ;
Walter, H. C. 1695 ; Elizabeth, who m. Rev. Thomas Barnard,
and Hannah. The 1st, 3d, and 4lh sons were lost at sea. Felt, An-
nals, 246.
PRICHARD, ||*HUGH, Roxbury, freeman 1642, member of the
ar. CO. 1643; representative 1643, 1644, 1649, a captain, according
to Johnson, [Hist. N. E. 191] in 1644. He appears to have been
of Gloucester in 1645, and one of the selectmen that year. His
s6n, Zebadiah, was b. in 1643. Joseph, one of the principal in-
habitants of Brookfield, was killed by the Indians, 2 August, 1675.
RICHARD, Charlestown, d. 8 March, 1670. ROGER, Spring-
field, freeman 1648. WILLIAM, sometimei^ spelled Pritchett,
was of Ipswich in 1648, and probably one of the first settlers of
Brookfiefd. One of the name was of Lynn in 1645.
PRIDE, JOHN, Salem 1637, died a. 1647. This name exists
in Vermont,
PRIEST, DEGORY, Plymouth, one of the first pilgrims, d. 1 Jan.
1621. JAMES, Salem, admitted fi'eeman 1643, d. 1664. JAMES,
Weymouth, had a eon James, b. 1640, and d. at Salem. JOHN,
of Weymouth in 1657.
• PRIME, MARK, Rowley 1648. Rev. Ebenezer Prime, Y. C.
in 1718, was minister of Huntington, L. I., and d. 1779, a^ed 79.
Wood, Hist. L. I. 43.
PRINCE, JOHN, Cambridge 1634, freeman 1635, perhaps af-
terwards of Hingham. JOHN, came from England 1638, and d.
at Hull, 1676. His son, Samuel Prince, esquire, was the first rep-
resentative of Rochester, under Massachusetts 1692, and was father
of Rev. Thomas Prince, the distinguished annalist of N. E. who
grad. at H. C. 1707, and d. at Boston, 22 October, 1758, s. 71.
RICHARD, a tailor of Salem, admitted to the church, 16 January,
1642, of which he was a deacon ; became freeman the same year,
d. 1675, ®. 61. Felt, Annals, 249. ^JTHOMAS, governour of
Plymouth colony, wrote his name Prence, which see. THOMAS,
Gloucester 1664. Fourteen of the name had grad. at the N. K
colleges in 1825.
PRIOR, MATTHEW, Brookhaven, L. I. 1665. Wood, Hist.
L. I. 48. THOMAS, Scituate 1638, d. 1639.
PROCTOR, GEORGE, Dorchester, fi>eeman 1637, had a son
Samuel, b. in 1640. JOHN, Ipswich 1635. ROBERT, Concord,
fireeman 1643, was one of the petitioners for Chelmsford 1653, had
children, Sarah ; Gershom, b. 1648 ; Mary, and Peter.
PROUT, ^EBENEZER, Concord, son of the following, was b. at
Boston ; was a captain and representative in 1689 and 16M. Timo*
thy Prout grad. at H. C. 1741, and two of the name of John Prout
grad. at Y. C. 1708 and 1732. ♦TIMOTHY, a ship-carpenter of
Boston, was admitted member of the church 1643, fireeman 1644,
elected represenUtive 1685, 1689, 1689—1692, six y^rs, died 3
Nov. 1702, e. more than 80 years. His sons were, Timothy, bom
1645, William, b. 1653 ; Benjamin, b. 1655, and Ebenezer, bora
1656.
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PRUDDEN, PETER, the first minister of Milford, arrived
in N. £. 26 June, 1637, in company with Rev. John Davenport ;
rended scmie time at Dedham ; removed to Milford, where he was
installed 18 April, 1640, and died in 1656, s. 56. JOHN, proba-
bly son of the preceding, grad. at H. C. 1668, was settled in 1670
the minister of Jamaica, L. I., firom whence he removed to Newark,
N. J. in 1602 ; and was there settled. He resigned his charge, 9
June, 1699, a&d d. 11 Dec. 1725, e. 80. Job and Jeremiah Prud-
den, clergymen, grad. at Y. C. 1743 and 1775. Alden. W. Win-
tbrop. Wood.
PUDINGTON, ROBERT, Portsmouth 1640. Belknap, i. Hist.
N. H. 47.
PUFFER, JAMES, Braintree 1655. Matthew Puffer was also
of Braintree. The only person of the name who had grad. in N.
£. in 1828 was Rev. Reuben Puffer, D. D., of Berlin, who grad.
atH. C. 1778, and d. in AprU, 1829, aged 73.
PULCIFER, BENEDICT, probably of Maine, is named by
Mather, ii. Magnalia, 509.
PUNDERSON, JOHN, New-Haven 1639. Six of the name
had grad. at Y. C. in 1826, of whom Ebenezer and Thomas were
clergymen.
PURCHIS, JOHN, Boston, had a son John b. in 1656. •OLI-
YER, Dorchester, was born 1613, came to N. E. as early as 1635,
was admitted freeman 1636, and settled at Dorchester, from thence
went to Lynn, which he represented 13 years from 1660, the last
time in 1689 ; was elected an assistant in 1665, but declined taking
the oath. He removed, it is believed, to Concord, in 1691, where,
Mr. Shattuck [MS Letter] says he d. 20 Nov. 1701. His age was
88. This name is often written Purchase. THOMAS, Lynn
1644 Lewis
PURINGTON, ROBERT, bom about 1634, was of N. H. in
1665, and his posterity are still there.
PUTNAM, JOHN, Salem, came from England and was admitted
freeman 1647, and d. 1663. Thirty-four of the name had grad. at
the N. E. colleges in 1828, many of whom were his descendants.
* JOHN, Salem, son of the preceding, was born a. 1630, admitted
freeman 1665 ; was a military officer, and representative 1680,
1666, 1691, and 1692. *NATHANIEL, Salem 1648, was born
1621 ; representative 5 sessions in 1690 and 1691. THOMAS,
freeman 1642, was of Lynn, and was admitted to the church in
Salem, 3 April, 1643. Felt. Lewis.
PYNCHON, JWILLIAM, one of the founders of the church
and town of Roxbury, was elected an assistant in 1628, came to
N. E. in 1630 ; was treasurer of the Mass. colony ; removed to
Springfield and was the principal person in settling that town, which
be \eh in Sept. 1652, on his return to England with Rev. George
Koxon. He d. at Wraisbury, on the Thames, in BuckinghapQshire
in Oct. 1662, ». 72 or 74. His Ist wife died in N. E. ; his 2d at
Wraisbury, 10 Oct. 1657. His children were, John ; Anna, who m.
Henry Smith ; Margaret, who in. Captain William Davis, and Mn-
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ty, wbo died 26 Oct. 1657, the wife of Capt. Edward Holyoke.
^*JOHN, son of the preceding, was b. in England in 1625, came to
N. E. und was admitted freeman in 1648, settled at Springfield,
which he represented in 1659, 1662, and 1663. He was elected
an assistant from 1665 to 1686, 22 years ; was one of Sir Edmund
Andros' council 1687, was a colonel of the Hampshire regiment ; d.
17 Jan. 1703, ae. 77. He m. Amy, daughter of Gov. George Wyllys
of Hartford. She d. 9 Jan. 1699, as. 74. His children were, Jo-
seph; John; Mary, b. 28 Oct. 1650, d. at Hartford; William, b.
1653, d. 1654 ; Mehetabel, b. 1661, d. 1663. The tale of the " Cath-
olic," in the AUantick Souvenir for 1829, p. 210 to 228, has refer-
ence to this gentleman as one of the principal characters. JOHN,
son of the preceding, was born at Springfield, 17 Oct. 1647, was
two years at H. C. was clerk of the court of sessions and of com-
mon pleas, and register of deeds. He d. 25 April, 1721. His wife,
Margaret, a daughter of Rev. William Hubbard, d. 11 Nov. 1716.
His children were, 1. John, b. at Ipswich, and had children, Wil-
liam, b. 11 Nov. 1703, Mehetabel; Eliza; Joseph and John, twins,
b. 7 Feb. 1705 ; Mary ; Bathsheba ; Edward ; George, and Charles ;
2. Margaret, who m. Nathaniel Downing, of Ipswich, and had Na*>
thaniel, John, Margaret, Jane, Lucy, and Anne ; 3. William, b. at
Ipswich 1689, m. Catharine, daugMer of Rev. Daniel Brewer, and
d. 1 Jan. 1741, having had children, Sarah, William, Margaret,
Daniel, John, and Joseph. Felt, MS Letter. *JOSEPH, brother
of the preceding, was b. at Springfield, 26 July, 1646; grad. at H.
C. 1664, represented Springfield in 1681 and 1682, was a physician,
and died in Boston unmarried. THOMAS, Scituate 1638. This
name is Pinchin in the 2 Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. iv. 240.
PTNE, THOMAS, Massachusetts, was admitted freeman 1635.
It is not improbable that this should be Pinney, a name which ex-
ists in New-England.
aUICK, WILLIAM, Charlestown 1650. Cofiin.
QUILTER, MARK, came to N. E. with Rev. Nathaniel Rogers
and settled in Ipswich before 1648. Joseph Ouilter is menticmed
in the Revo, in N. E. Justified, p. 38.
QUIMBY, ROBERT, was an inhabitant of Salisbury in 1663.
This name exists in various parts of New-Hampshire.
aUINCY, *EDMUND, the ancestor of the most distinguished
duincy fiimily in N. E., came over with Rev. John Cotton in 1633,
was admitted freeman 1634, and was deputy at the first general
court, 14 May, 1634; received a grant of land in Braintree [now
auincy] in 1635. He died soon after, aged 33. *EDMUND,
Braintree, son of the preceding, was born in England 1627, admi^
ted fireeman 1665 ; was the first major and Lieut, colonel in Brain-
tree, representative in 1670, 1673, 1675, 1679, and d. 7 Jan. 1698,
8B. 70. Joanna, his wife, d. 16 May, 1680, aged 55. His children
were, 1. Mary, b. 1650 ; 2. Daiel, b. 7 Feb. 1651, member of the
ar. CO. 1675; 3. John, b. 5 April, 1652; 4. Joanna, b. 1654; 5.
Judith, b. 1655; 6. Elizabeth, b. 1656; 7. Edmund, b. 1657; d.
1661 ; and a Edmund, probably by a 2d wife, b. in Oct. 1681, who.
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with Daniel, left male issue. ' Daniel, had but one son, John Qain-
ej, (the great-grandfiither of John duincy Adams, who derires his
name from him] born in 1689, was speaker of the house of repr^
sentatives and member of the council 40 successive years, and d. 13
July, 1767, aged 78. Edmund grad. at H. C. 1699, was judge of
the supreme court of the province, and agent at the court of Great-
Britain, d. at London of the small pox, 23 Feb. 1738, aged 56, leav-
ing Edmund, who grad. at H. C. 1722, and d. June, 1788, aged 85,
and Josiah, who was born 1709, grad. at H. C. 1728, a distinguish-
ed character, and d. at Braintree 1784, having had 3 sons, of much
distinction ; 1. Edmund, b. Oct. 1733, grad. at H. C. 1752, was an
eminent merchant in Boston, d at sea, in March, 1768, aged 34 ;
2. Samuel, who grad. at H. C. 1754, was solicitor, general, became
a loyalist, went to Antigua, W. I. and d. in 1789 ; 3. Josiah, b. in
Boston, Feb. 1734, grad. at H. C. 1763, was eminent for his patri-
otism and eloquence, went to England, and d. on his return to
America, 26 April, 1775, aged 33. The Hon, Josiah duincy, the
late mayor of Boston, now president of Harvard College, is a son of
the last named.
RADCLIFFE, PHILIP, Massachusetts, was sentenced 14 June,
1631, to be whipped, have his ears cropped, and then banished.
Felt, Annals of Salem, 54. R OBER T, the first minister of King's
Chapel, Boston, came over in 1686, and conmenced his ministry the
succeeding summer. Dunton's Journal in 2 Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc.
ii. 106. There have been several graduates in this country of the
name of Radcliff.
RAINSBOROW, || member of the ar. co. 1639, return*
ed to England, and was an officer in Cromwell's army, and attained
the rank of colonel. Savage, Winthrop, ii. Hist. N. E. 245, 351,
354.
RAINSFORD, EDWARD, Boston, brother of Lord Chief Jus-
tice Rainsford, was admitted freeman 1637, and wa^ an elder of the
church. He had sons, Joshua, b. 1632 ; John, 1634, d. at Boston
1698; Jonathan, 1636; Nathan 1641 ; David, b. 1044, d. 1691.
RAMSDELL, JOHN, Lynn, 1638, d. 27 Oct. 1688, aged 86.
leaving sons, John and Aquila. A John Ramsdell was of Box-
ford in 1673.
RAND, FRANCIS, Pascataqua 1631. JAMES, Plymouth 1623.
JOHN, Charlestown, d. 19 Dec. 1659. Nathan Rand, of Charles-
town, was freeman 1668. John Rand, H. C. 1748, the first minis-
ter of Lyndeborough, N. H., was born in Charlestown. Eight oth-
ers of the name have grad. at H. C. ROBERT, Lynn 1649, d. 8
Nov. 1694. He had 2 sons, Robert and Zachary. Lewis. THO-
MAS, Massachusetts, fi'eeman 1660.
RANDALL, ABRAHAM, Dorchester, removed to Windsor,
Conn. 1636. PHILIP, Massachusetts, freeman 1634. (See Ren-
DALL.) WILLIAM, Scituate 1640. Twelve of the name had
grad. at the N. E. colleges in 1828.
RANDLET, CHARLES, Exeter, was taken captive by the In-
dians 1675, but soon after escaped. Hubbard, Wars Eastern In-
dians, 20.
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RANDOLPH. RAYNER.
RANDOLPH, fEDWARD, called the "evil genius of New-
England/' was one of Sir Edmund Andros' council 1687| and his
secretary of the council. Eliot, Biog. Dictionary. Farmer and
Moore, iii. Coll. 29—32.
RANGER, EDMUND, Massachusetts, freeman 1671.
RASHLEY, THOMAS, member of the church in Boston in
1640, is called a student and probably the member of the ar. co. ^
1645. He was of Exeter 1646.
RAVENSCROFT, ||SAMUEL, was member of thear.co. 1679,
m. Dyonisia, daughter of Major Thomas Savage.
RAVENSDALE, JOHN, Massachusetts, was admitted freeman
1635. Thomas Ravensdale suffered martyrdom in Sussex, En-
gland in 1656.
RAWLING, RICHARD, Boston, member of the church 1642.
RAWLINS, JAMES, Newbury, was admitted freeman 1634.
JASPER, whose name is spelled RcacUn, was freeman 1633. JO-
SEPH, Massachusetts, freeman 1634. ||THOMAS, Boston, free-
man 1631, member of the ar. co. 1642, d. 15 March, 1660. His
sons were, Caleb, b. 1645 ; Samuel, b. 1655. THOMAS, Wey-
mouth, freeman 1636, had son Joshua, b. 1642.
RAWSON, *EDWARD, born in Gillingham, in Dorsetshire,
about 1615, [Coffin] came to N. E. as early as 1637, and settled in
Newbury, where he was town clerk, and representative in 1638,
and 8 years afterwards, having been admitted freeman in 1637.
He went to Boston, a. 1650, and was Secretary of the Mass. colony
from 1650 to 1686. He m. Rachel Perne, and his children were
Edward, H. C. 1653, who, it is said, went to England and was seir
tied as a preacher at Horsmanden, in Kent, from whence he was
ejected after the restoration [Calamy] ; Rachel, who m. William
Aubrey in 1653 ; David, b. 6 May, 1644 ; Susan, who d. at Roxbury
1654 ; Pernal, b. 1646 ; GrindaU, b. 1649 ; William, b. in Boston,
21 May, 1651, settled in Dorchester, and had sons, Nathaniel, Eb- ,
enezer, Edward, Pelatiah, and Grindall; Rebecca, who m.. Thom-
as Rumsey in 1679, and GRINDALL, 2d, b. 1658, grad. at H. C.
1678, ordained the 2d minister of Mendon 1680, and d. 6 Feb.
1715, in his 57th year, who was father [Coffin,] jp^rAops grandfather
of Grindall Rawson, H. C. 1728, minister of Hadlyme, who d. 29
March, 1777, aged 69. A third Grindall Rawson, H. C. 1741,
was also a clergyman, and settled at Ware and at Yarmouth, Mass.
RAY, DAVID. (See Wray.) SAMUEL, Salem 1637.
RAYMOND, RICHARD, Salem, freeman 1634. JOHN, Bev-
erly, d. 18 Jan. 1703, aged 87. JOHN, jun. Beverly, freeman 1683.
WILLIAM, Portsmouth 1631. *WILLIAM, Salem 1648; afler-
wards of Beverly, a captain, and representative in 1685 and 1686.
This name is oflen spelled Raynunt in Beverly records.
RAYN, JOSEPH, was attorney general of New-Hampshire, a.
the time of Cranfield. Rayn or Raynes was a name at York, in
1668.
RAYNER, *HUMPHREY, Rowley, was representative 1649,
and d. in 1660. Jachin Rayner, d. at Rowley 1708, and a Mrs.
Rayner d. there 1698. JOHN, minister of Plymouth and Dover,
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brother of the preceding, came to N. E. about 16^5j and settled at
Plyiffouth, wh«re he was the minister 18 years ; went to Dover in
1655, and d. there in April, 1669. His sons were, John ; Joseph,
b. 1650, d. 1652, and probably others. The name is often spelled
Reyner, JOHN, minister of Dover, son of the preceding, grad.
at H. C. 1663 ; was ordained in 1671, and d. at Braintree, 21 Dec.
1676, ». about 34. THOMAS, one of the first settlers of Hemp-
stead, L. I, 1643. Wood's Hist. L. I. JTHURSTON, Water-
town, removed to Connecticut, and was elected a magistrate 1643
—1661. Mather, Magnalia. Trumbull. WILLIAM, freeman
1670.
READ, *ESDRAS, Salem, admitted to the church, 10 May,
1640, freeman 1641, dismissed fo Wenham, which he represented
in 1648 and 1651, and from thence went to Chelmsford with Rev.
John Fiske in 1055. || JOHN, Braititi'ee, freeman 1640, member
of the ar. co. 1644, had sons, John, b. 29 Aug. 1640; Thomas, b.
26 Nov. 1641. PHILIP, Weymouth 1641, freeman 1660, had a
son Philip, b. in 1641, who was probably of Concord in 1670*
ROBERT, Exeter 1638, d. at Hampton 1658. There was a Rob-
ert Read of Boston in 1646. THOMAS, Salem, came to N. E.
1630, settled in Salem, was admitted freeman 1634, and died abroad
before 1663, having been a colonel. THOMAS, Lynn 1637. Felt,
Annals, 218. THOMAS, Sudbury, perhaps the freeman admitted
1656, d. 13 Sept. 1701. Shattuck. His son Thomas, freeman 1679.
•WILLIAM, Weymouth, freeman 1635, representative 1636, 1638,
had a son William, b. in 1639. WILLIAM, Dorchester, membei?
of the church 1636, freeman 1638, perhaps was of Boston 1646.
WILLIAM, Weymotith, was admitted freeman 1653. Some of
those under this name wrote it Reed, but they cannot be distiij^guish-
ed. Of the 60 graduates at the N. E., N. J., and Union colleges, 33
are entered Read and 27, Reed,
REDDING, JOSEPH, Cambridge 1632, freeman 1634, of Ips-
wich 1648. MYLES, Massachusetts, freeman 1634, was one of the
proprietors of Billerica in 1665. THOMAS, Saco, 1652. This
name exists in New-Hampshire.
REDDINGTON, ♦ABRAHAM, was representative in 1686,
perhaps for Topsfield. DANIEL, freeman 1685.
REDFORD, CHARLES, Salem, was a merchant and d. 1692.
Pelt, Annals, 302.
REDIAT, JOHN, Sudbury, freeman 1645, was one of the pro-
prietors of Marlborough. His son John, was b. 1644.
REDMAN, JOHN, Hampton, one of the early settlers, and liv-
ing in 1^685, at the age of 70. Adams, Annals Porti^outh, 397.
Robert Rednnan was of Dorchester in 1658.
REDNAP, JOSEPH, was a wine-cooper, came ftowi London,
w^s adnditled freeman in 1634, and d. iiS Boston in I68d, s. ItO.
Hutchinson, i. Hist. Mass. 306.
REED, EBDRAS, Salem. (See RtiAi^.) Twenty-sevei of the
DMne, spelled Reed, had grad. at the^N. E. colleges in 1829.
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REEVE. RICHARDS.
REEVE, JOHN, Salem 1659. Spelled also Reeves. Em.
Tapping Reeve, LL. D., judge of the supreme court of Conn. grad.
at N. J. College in 1763. Several others of the name have gr^. at
Yale.
REMICK, CHRISTIAN, Kitteryi652.
REMINGTON, JOHN, Newbury 1637, freeman 1639, removed
to Andover, and thence to Rowley and to Roxbury. He had Joseph,
h. 1650, and Thomas. JONATHAN, who was b. in Rowley 1639,
may have lived in Cambridge, where was a Jonathan Remington
before 1670. Five have grad. at H. C.
RENDALL, PHILIP, was admitted freeman in 1634. Edward
and James Rendall were of New-Hampshire in 1666. ROBERT,
Weymouth, was admitted freeman in 1647.
REVELL, |JOHN, was chosen assistant, 20 Oct. 1629, came
over 1630, and returned to England in the ship Lyon, with William
Vassall the same year. Savage, i. Winthrop, N. E. 20. THOM-
AS, one of the judges of Charles I, king of England, came to N.
E., and died in Braintree. Whitney, Hist. Quincy, 36.
REVERDY, PETER, a French protestant wrote memoirs con-
cerning Sir Edmund Andros as early as 1689. Revo, in N. £. Just.
40.
REYNER, JOHN. (See Rayner.)
REYNOLDS, HENRY, Lynn 1647, Salem 1650. Lewis.
JOHN, Weymouth, freeman 1635. A John Reynolds was early at
the Isles of Shoals. See 1. Coll. JVJass. Hist. Soc. vii. 250. ||NA-
THANIEL, member of the ar. co. 1658, freeman, 1665. ROB-
ERT, Boston, freeman 1634, d. ^7 April, 1659. Snow, Hist. Bos-
ton, 118. WILLIAM, Salem, admitted to the church 1640, re-
moved to Providence as early as 1641.
RHODES, HENRY, Lynn 1643, was born a. 1608. [Lewis.]
JOSEPH, Lynn, freeman 1677. Simon Rhodes grad. at Y. C. in
1736.
RICE, *EDMUND, Sudbury, freeman 1640, representative 1640,
was one of the petitioners for the grant of Marlborough, to which
place he probably removed. His son Benjamin was b. in 1640.
EDWARD, a deacon of Marlborough, was admitted freeman in
1651. His descendants are numerous and have been remarkable
for longevity. Worcester Magazine, ii. 185. HENRY, Sudbury
1640, was admitted freeman 1648, and was one of the proprietors of
Marlborough. PHILIP, Boston 1640, was a member of the church.
RICHARD, Concord 1635, admitted freeman 1641, died 9 June,
1709, 8B., according to the records, " more than 100 years," but Mr.
Shattuck makes him but 97. It is said that he lefl 8 sons, who
lived to great ages. ROBERT, Boston, disarmed in 1637, had
eons, Joshua, b. 1637, Nathaniel, b. 1639. THOMAS, Sudbury,
perhaps son of Richard, was admitted freeman 1660, and d. 16 Nov.
1691.
RICHARDS, EDWARD, Dedham 1639, freeman 1641, had a
8on John, b. in 1641. There was an Edward Richards of Lynn,
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RICHARDS. RICHARDSON.
who d. 26 Jan. 1690, 8b. 74, leaving a son John. Lewis. JAMES,
Massachusetts, admitted freeman 1652. {JAMES, Connecticut,
was elected magistrate in 1665. |||JOHN, Dorchester, member of
the ar. co. 1644, its lieutenant in 1667 ; a captain and major ; rep-
resentative for Newbury from 1671 to 1673, 3 years, for Hadley
1675, of Boston 1679 and 1680; speaker Feb. 1680, was elected
assistant 1680 to 1686,* and one of the first counsellors under the
charter of William and Mary 1692. He d. at Boston, 2 April,
1694. He m. Elizabeth, widow of Adam Winthrop, 3 May, 1654.
NATHANIEL, Cambridge, freeman 1632. Holmes, Hist. Cam-
bridge. THOMAS, Massachusetts, was admitted freeman 1640.
IITHOMAS, freeman 1645, member of the ar. co. 1648. WIL-
LIAM, Weymouth 1658. Of the name of Richards, 18 had grad.
at the N. E. colleges in 1828.
RICHARDSON, AMOS, a tailor, lived in Boston, was admitted
freeman 1665, and had sons, John, baptized 3 Jan. 1648 ; Stephen,
b. 14 June 1652; Samuel, b. 18 Feb. 1660. Of the name of Rich-
ardson, 19 had grad. at the various colleges in New-England in
1826. EDWARD, Newbury, was born a. 1619. His sons were,
Edward, b. 21 Dec. 1649 ; Caleb, b. 18 Aug. 1652 ; Moses, b. 4
April, 1658. Coffin. *EZEKIEL, Charlestown, came to N. E. in
1630, and with his wife was admitted to the church in Boston, from
which they were dismissed 11 Oct. 1632. He was admitted free-
man 18 May, 1631, was representative at the Sept. court 1635; re-
moved to Woburn, and there died 28 Oct. 1647. His son John d.
7 Jan. 1643, and his daughter Ruth d. the same year. JAMES,
went from Woburn to Chelmsford as early as 1659. He m. Brid-
get Hinchmao, 28 Nov, 1660, and had several children. His son
James was b. 26 Oct. 1661. JOHN, the third minister of New-
bury, grad. in 1666, at H. C, of which he was a fellow; admitted
freeman 1675, ordained 20 Oct. 1675, and d. 27 April, 1696, in his
50th year. He m. Mary Pierson of Woburn, 28 Oct. 1673, and his
children were, Sarah, b. 19 Sept. 1674 ; John, b. 15 July, 1676;
Mary, b. 1677; Elizabeth, b. 1680; Catharine, b. 15 Sept. 1681.
Coffin. *J0SIAH, Chelmsford 1659, was admitted freeman 1674,
town clerk 3 years, selectman 14 years, representative 1689 and
1690, captain of the military pompany, and d. 22 July, 1695, aged
a. 60. He m, Remembrance, daughter of William Underwood, 6
June, 1659, and his children were, 1. Sarah, b. 1660, m. William
Fletcher of Chelmsford ; 2. Mary, b. 1662, m, Moses Barron, of
Chelmsford ; 3. Josiah, b. 18 May, 1665, was a lieutenant, and by
Marcy, his wife, had sons, Josiah, Robert, Zachariah, and William,
of whom the last is ancestor of William M. Richardson, LL. D.,
chief justice of New-Hampshire; 4. Jonathan, b. 8 Oct. 1667, m.
Elizabeth Bates, and d. 21 Feb. 1753; 5. John, b. 14' Feb. 1669;
6. Samuel, b. 21 Feb. 1672. d. April, 1754; 7. Remembrance, b.
20 April, 1684. The descendants in the several branches of this
family are scattered in various parts of the U. States. RICHARD,
Boston 1654. SAMUEL, was admitted freeman in 1638, and set-
tled in Woburn 1642, d. 23 March, 1658. His sons were, John pr
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Joseph, [Bofi^n and Midd'x. co. records differ in the name] b. <2$
July, 1643 i Samuel, b. 22 AprU, 1646; Stephen, b. 15 Aug. 1649;
Thomas, b. 1651, d. 16$7. Joanna, his widow, d. 1666. THO,
SI AS, brother of the preceding, freeman 1638, was one of the first
settlers of Woburn, where he d. 28 Aug. 1651. His children were
Thomas, b, 4 Oct. 1645, who settled in Billerica, d. 25 Feb. 1721,
the ancestor of the many families who have lived in that town, and
of Hon. Joseph Richardson, of Hingham, M. C. ; lsaa<^, b. 24 May,
1643 ; Nathaniel, b. 2 Jan. 1650. WILLIAM, Newbury 1655, d,
9^ March, 1658, leaving sons, Joseph, b. 1655 ; Benj^giin, b. 13
M^, 1658. Coffin.
RICHMOND, EDWARD, Rhode-Island, one of the purchasers
of land in the Narraganset country with Major Humphrey Atherton,
RIDGDALE, JOHN, Plymouth 1620, one of the first pilgiims,
|vho d. before March, 1621.
RIDGE, JOHN, Newbury, d. 1666.
RIGBY, EDWARD, Lancaster 1654. Some of the early Rig-
bys in N. E. came from Rigby ii^ Lancashire. JOHN, Dorchester,
was admitted freeman 1642.
RIGGS, EDWARD, Roxbury was ;^dmitted freeman and d. m
1634. THOMAS, Gloucester 16(34. Elias Riggs, a graduate an4
^tor of N. J. College, was settled in the ministry.
RILEY, JOHN, Springfield, freeman 1671, d. 24 Oc*. 1684^
IJENRY, Rowley, d. 1710, ». 82.
RINDGE, DANIEL, Ipswich 1648. Daniel Rindge, H. C.
1709, is the only graduate of the name in N. E.
RING ROBERT, one of the first proprietors of Salisbury, wa^
pidmitted freeman in 164^0. THOMAS, Exeter, d. in 1667. WJL-
tiAM, Salem, a. 1632.
RIPLEY, ABJ^AHAM, Hingham, son of William Ripley, was
l^n^ted freeman in 1655. JO (IN, Hingham, brother of the prer<
icedipg^ wa^ admitted freeman in 1655, m. daughter of Rev. Peter
HoWt, ^x^d t^d six sons, John, Joshua, Jeremiah^ Josiab, Peter,
an4 Hezekiah. WILXJAM, fi^ther of the preceding, came from
Hingham, England, with his wife, sons Abraham and John, ^nd 3
'(ifLUghters, ^nd settled at Hingham, Ms., in 1638, was admitted free^
man 1641, aji^d d. 20 July, 1656. His descendants are very rf-
fipectable, pf |¥hom is Rev. Ezra Ripley, D. D., of Concord, Ma., %
native of Woodstock, who grad. at H. C. 1776,
RISHWORTH, ♦EDWARD, Wells 1643, Kittery 1652, repre-
eentative of York 1653, and the 12 succeeding years ; was a magis-
trate, ^d living in 1683. His name is frequently Rushworth in old
records, hut he wrote it as above, which has been 9. baptismal nam^
in Mf^iue, probably from him. His wife was daughter of Rev. John
Wfioelwright.
RIX, WILLIAM, Boston, d. 13 Nqv. 1657. His sons were, E\u
8ha, h' l^; ilohn, 1648; Thorny, 1654; Ezekiel, 1656. Th^
liame exists in N. H.
JVO^KE, |{J0^EP9, member of the ar. po. 1658. (See Rock.)
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ROBBINS; JOHN/ was a prpprieter of Bridgewai^r in 1645.
]S,IC}fARD, Cambridge, had sodb, John; Samuel, h. 1643, and
Nathaniel. He and his wife Rebecca were members of the church*
William Robbins d. in Boston in 1693. Robert Robbins was of
Concord in 1678.
ROBERTS, JOHN, Ipswich, freeman 1639. JOHN, was one
of the selectmen of Dover in 1665. ROBERT, Boston 1646, Ips-
wich 1648, and d. in 1663, leaving a widow and 8 children. SI-
MON, Boston 1655, had sons, John and Simon. ||THOMAS,
member of .the ar. co. 1644, freeman 1645, may have been the
principal landholder in Exeter, named by Savage, ii. Winthrop,
Hist. N. E. 327. WILLIAM. Oyster-River, now Durham, N. H.,
was killed by the Indians 1675.
ROBERTSON, WILLIAM, Concord 1670. Shattuck. A
Johii Robertson wa« killed by the Indians at Salisbury, 21 Oct.
1676. Coffin.
ROBINSON, ISAAC, Sciiuate 1633, son of that celebrated pu-
ritan, the Rev. John Robinson, who died at Leyden, in Holland, 19
Feb. 1625, [i. Prince, 159] in his 50th year, [Dr. Holmes, i. An-
pals, 19i, erroneously makes his death in 1625^^] is mentioned
\>y Prince a? a venerable man, whom he had seen, and who died
pver 90 years of age. Prince, i. Annals, 160. Mr. Lewis in*
fprme me that an Isaac Robinscm lived in Lynn in 1637. JOHN,
Ipswich, probably the freeman in 1641, died I March, 1657. JOHN,
brother of Isaac, settled at, or near Cape Ann. The late Professor
J^mes F. Pana, M. D., informed me, that Abraham, his son, and
grandson of Rev. John Robinson, died at the age of 102 years,
^nd that it was engraved on his tombstone that he was the first child
born of English parents on that side of Massachusetts-Bay. JOHN,
freeman 1685. WILLIAM, Salem 1637, was admitted member^of
the church, 16 Sept. 1638. WILLIAM, Dorchester 1636, two*of
whose sons were, probably, Nathaniel, freeman in 1673, and Tho-
mas, who were of Boston in 1650. A Robinson <of Exeter waa
killed by the Indians ip 1675.
RQB Y, HENY, Dorchester 1639, and it is likely, went the same
year to Exeter, in the vicinity of which the name has continued to
the present time.
ROCK, JOSEPH, Boston, freeman 1652, had sons, John and
Joseph. Snow, Hist. Boston, 136.
ROCKETT, RICHARD, Braitttree, whose son John was born
1641, and wife Agnes, d. in 1643.
ROCKWELL, WILLIAM, Dorchester, requested to be made
^eeman in 1630, and was admitted 18^ May, 1631. Ten of the
name had grad. at Y. C. aod one at Dart, in 1828.
ROCKWOOD, NICHOLAS, Medfield 1651, had a son Benja-
min. SAMUEL, admitted &eeman in 1682. Two of the name
had grad. in 1828 at each of the colleges at Harv. Dart, and Midd.
RODGERS, came to N. E. in 1628, as a minister ibr
Plymouth, but ** proving oeaa'd in his brain,'' he was sent back by
the colonists the next year. Prince, i. Annals, 193.
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ROGERS, DAVID, Braintree, d. 24 Sept. 1642. Of this name
there was a number of &milies among the early emigrants to N. E.,
and it is not improbable that several besides the ministers of Ips-
wich and Rowley, were descended from that distinguished martyr,
the Jirst " of that blessed company who suffered in the reign of Mary."
There have been many literary men of the name, no less than 48
having grad. in N. E., 13 of whom have been clergymen. EZE-
KIELy the first minister of Rowley, was the son of Richard Rog-
ers, of Weathersfield, England, and a cousin of Rev. Nathaniel
Rogers, of Ipswich, was born in 1590. He came to N. E. in 1638,
was admitted freeman, 23 May, 1639, settled at Rowley, where he
d. 23 Jan. 1661, s. 70. His 3d wife was daughter of Rev. John
"Wilson, of Boston. His children d. young, and he lefl no issue.
EZEKIEL, son of Rev. Nathaniel, was born in N. E., grad. at
H. C. in 1659, was living in Ipswich, 1666, [2 Coll. Mass. Hist
Soc. viii. 107] and d. 5 July, 1674, leaving issue. JOHN, the fifth
president of H. C, brother of the preceding, was born in England,
and probably at Assington, came with his father to N. E. 1636,
grad. at H. C. 1649, was a physician, and succeeded President
Oakes in 1682, and d. 2 July, 1684. He m. Elizabeth Denison,
and his children were, 1. Elizabeth, b. 26 Feb. 1661 ; 2. Margaret,
18 Feb. 1664 ; 3. John, 1666 ; 4. Daniel, b. 25 Sept. grad. at H. C.
1686, was a physician in Ipswich, and perished on Hampton Beach
in a violent snow storm, 1 Dec. 1722, leaving Daniel, who grad. at
H. C. 1725, ordained the minister of Littleton, 15 March, 1732, d.
Nov. 1782, ffi. 76 ; 5. Nathaniel, b. 22 Feb. 1670, grad. at H. C.
1687, was ord. the 2d minister of the 1st church in Portsmouth, 3
May, 1699, d. 3 Oct. 1723, sb. 54, leaving Nathaniel, a physician
and magistrate, who grad. at H. C. 1717, and d. 15 Nov. 1746 ;
6. Patience, b. 25 May, 1676. JOHN, the seventh minister of
Ipswich, was son of the preceding, was born 7 July, 1666, and
grad. at H. C. 1684. He was ordained 12 Oct. 1692, and died 28
Dec. 1745, s. 79. He m. Martha, daughter of John Whittingham,
4 March, 1691, by whom [wh<J d. 9 March, 1759, ae. 89] he had,
1. John, b. 19 Jan. 1692, grad. at H. C. 1711, the minister of Eliot,
Me., and d. 1773 ; 2. Martha ; 3. William, b. 19 June, 1699, set-
tled in Maryland ; 4. Nathaniel, b. 4 March, 1702, grad. at H. C.
1721, settled colleague with his father, and d. 1775, s. 73; 5. Rich-
ard, b. 2 Dec. 1703, a merchant of Ipswich ; 6. Elizabeth ; 7. Dan-
iel, b. 28 July, 1707, grad. at H. G. 1725, installed the first minis-
ter of the 2d church in Exeter, 1748, died Dec. 1785, in his 80th
year ; 8. Elizabeth, 2d, a twin with Daniel ; 9. Samuel, b. 31 Aug.
1709, grad. at H, C. 1725, was a physician, and d. at Ipswich, 21
Dec. 1772. *JOHN, a deacon in Weymouth, was admitted free-
man 1637, representative 1659, died 11 Feb. 1661. There was a
John Rogers in Dedham in 1636, and one of this name was of
Scituate in 1648, and perhaps one of the proprietors of Bridge wa-
ter in 1645. JOHN, Watertown, was admitted freeman 1638, d.
22 Dec. 1673, aged 80. JOHN, an early inhabitant of Billerica,
d. there, 25 Jan. 1686, leaving 4 sons, 1. John, born a. 1641, set-
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tied in Billerica, and was killed by the Indians, 5 August, 1695, of
whose descendants, three have grad. at H, C, viz : in 1802, Timo-
thy Foster, minister of Bernardstown, Ms. in 1809 ; Artemas, esq.,
of Henniker, N. H., and in 1817, Micajah, an instructer of youth;
2. Thomas, who setUed in Billerica, and was killed, with his son
Thomas, aged 11 years, 5 Aug. 1695 ; 3. Daniel ; 4. Nathaniel,
who also settled in Billerica. NA THANIEL, the third minister
of Ipswich, was the second son of Rev. John Rogers, of Dedham,
England, who d. 18 Oct. 1639, aged 67, a descendant from the
prebendary of St. Paul's, and the first who suffered martyrdom un-
der the bigoted dueen Mary. He was b. in 1598, was educated at
Emmanuel College, and came to N. E. in 1636, and was ordained
as colleague with Rev. John Norton, 20 Feb. 1638, admitted free-
man 16(]&, and d. 3 July, 1655, aged 57. He m. Margaret, daugh-
ter of Robert Crane, of Coggeshall, England. She died 23 Jan.
1676. Their children were, John ; Nathaniel, who died 14 June,
1680 ; Samuel, who d. 21 Dec. 1693 ; Timothy ; Ezekiel, and one
daughter, who m. Rev. William Hubbard. These were living at
the time of their father's death. ROBERT, one of the early in-
habitants of Newbury, d. 1664, leaving children, Robert, Thomas^
John, and Elizabeth. His widow m. William Thomas. SIMON,
Concord, freeman 1640, whose wife d. 1 Aug. 1640, was perhaps of
Boston- in 1642, where Nathaniel, Simon, Gamaliel, and Joseph,
sons of Simon Rogers, were born from 1642 to 1662. THOMAS,
one of the first pilgrims of Plymouth, 1620, died the first winter,
Joseph Rogers, of Plymouth, 1623, might be his son. Davis, Mor-
ton's Memo. 376. THOMAS, Massachusetts, was admitted free-
man in 1637. THOMAS, Saco 1652, had his house burned by the
Indians in Oct. 1676. WILLIAM, Kittery, fireeman 1652. WIL-
LIAM, Boston, had several children born there and died 13 July.
1664.
ROISE, ROBERT, Massachusetts, was admitted fi'eeman 1634.
The name of Royce exists in N. E.
ROLFE, BENJAMIN, Newbury, where he was born a. 164L
BENJAMIN y the second minister of Haverhill, was son of Ben-
jamin Rolfe, and was born 13 Sept. 1662 [Coffin] ; grad. at H. C.
1684, ordained in Jan. 1694, and was slain by the Indians in an
attack on Haverhill, 29 August, 1708, aged 46. DANIEL, EZRA,
and THOMAS, were of Ipswich in 1648, and David Rolfe died in
Salem, a. 1654. HENRY, one of the proprietors of Newbury in
1635. JOHN, one of the first settlers of Newbury, and a proprie-
tor of Salisbury, was admitted freeman 1639, and died 8 Feb. 1663.
His last wife, Mary Scullard, he m. in 1656.
ROMAN, JOHN, Cambridge, d. 19 Dec. 1638. The name of
Rameyn has furnished 5 clergymen in our country, two of whom
were distinguished for their rank and talents.
ROOT, JOSHUA, Salem 1637. JOHN, admitted freeman in
1669. JOSIAH, (Root or Roots,) was one of the founders Of the
church in Beverly 1667. RICHARD, Massachusetts, freeman
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1637. THOMAS, Salem 1637, perhaps went to Nortfeirtlpton,
where Thomas Root was one of the earliest proprietors.
ROP£R, JOHN, Dedham, freeman 1641, Lancaster 1656, killed
by the Indians 1676, He had sons, Ephraim and Benjamin, b. at
IJNedham in 1644. Ephraim, and his 2d wife, and a daughter, were
killed by the Indians in 1697. His first wife was killed by them
in 1675. WALTER, was born a. 1612, admitted freeman in 164^,
lived m Ipswich in 1666, and afterwards in Andover, but d- in Ips-
wich in 1680.
ROPES, GEORGE, Salem 1637, died a. 1670, leaving a wife
Mary, and sons, John and George. He is the ancestor of a i&nmfer-
ous and respectable line of descendants.
ROSE, GEORGE, Concord, freeman 1640, died 2^ May, 1649.
This name is Rowes in the colony records. ROBERT, one of the
fifst settlers of East-Hampton, L. I., 1650. Wood. Several of th<^
name have grad. at N. J. and Union colleges.
ROSS, JOHN, Cambridge, d. 1640. Thomas Ross was of Cam-
bridge in 1659. He had several sons, one or two of whom settled
in' BiDerica, where Seeth, his widow, was killed by the Indians, 5
Angust, 1695.
ROSSETER, BRAY, was admitted freeman 18 May, 16^1, and
removed to Windsor before 1640. Bryan Rosseter, possibly the
same, was one of the early physicians of N. E. and was living in
Guilford, Conn., 1650. He had a son Josiah, and one of his daugh-
ters m. Rev. John Cotton, of Plymouth. Nine of the name had
grad. in N. E. in 1826. |EDWARD, Boston, was chosen one of
the asssistants, 20 Oct. 1629 ; came to N. E. 1630, and d. 23 Oct.
that year. Prince, ii. Annals.
ROWE, JOHN, Gbucester 1664. Gibbs. MATTHEW, Not*^-
Haven 1650, had sons, John, Joseph, and Stephen. NICHOLAS,
Portsmouth 1640. His wife was Elizabeth. Belknap, i. Hist. N.
H 47
ROWELL, THOMAS, Salem 1649, d. about 1662. Fek, An^
nals Satem, 18§. THOMAS, Boston, died 29 Dec. 1658. VAL-
ENTINE, Salisbury, resided there at an early period.
ROWLAND, HENRY, Fairfield, Conn. 1668. Several of the
name, probably his descendants, have been clengyiwen. Eight have*
grad. at the N. E. colleges.
ROWLANDSfON, JOSEPH, the first minister of Lancaster,
son of Thomas Rowlandson, grad. at H. C. 1652, being the only
graduate that year. He went to Lancaster in 1654 ; wa^ ordained?
a. 1660 ^ went to Weathersfield when Lancaster wad destroyed by
the Indians, 10 Feb. 1676, and there d. 24 Nov. l!678. Mary, his*
wife, an daaghter of John White, puidished a narratrve of her cap-
tivity and various removes while a( prisoner. His children were, two
Marys, the lastb. 1665; J^oseph, b. 2^ March, 166* ; Sarah, b, 166^.
See Willard's Hist. Lancaster and his* preface to the 5th edhion of
Airs. Rowlandson's captivity. There is on the Essex co^. fites of a.
]r651, a. pieOfr of stttiridal poetry written by him, ^for wfiieh he "^^^
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prosecuted) also his submission to the court for his offence of writ-
ing the same. They are printed at length in the sixth edition of
Mrs. Rowlandson's Captivity. THOMAS, Ipswich, [?] whose
name is RawUnson in the colony records, was admitted freeman
1638, d. at Lancaster, 17 Nov. 1657, leaving several sons, of whom
were the preceding, and Thomas, who was killed at Lancaster, by
the Indians, 10 Feb. 1676. Willard, Hist. Lancaster.
ROWLEY, HENRY, Scituate 1634. 2 Coll. Mass. Hist Soc.
iv. 239. One of the name grad. at Union College in 1823.
ROUSE, FAITHFUL, Massachusetts, freeman 1644. William
Rouse d. at Boston in 1705, s. 65. Peter P. Rouse grad. at Union
College in 1818.
ROYAL, WILLIAM, North-Yarmouth, Me., was born 1640, d.
7 Nov. 1724, in his 85th year. Hon. Isaac Royal, his son, resided
at Antigua, W. I., near 40 years, returned to N. E. in 1737, and d.
7 June, 1739, ae. 67. A Mr. itoyal, or Ryall was a patentee of
some part of Maine. See Winthrop, i. 304.
RUCK, ♦JOHN, Salem, son of Thomas, was admitted freeman
1665, representative 1685. Peter Ruck, perhaps a son, grad. at
H. C. 1685. SAMUEL, Boston 1657. THOMAS, Salem, free-
man and member of the church 1640, died in 1670, leaving a wid-
ow and children. Felt, Annals, 239.
RUDDOCK, JOHN, Sudbury, freeman 1640, was one of the
first settlers of Marlborough, one of the selectmen, town clerk 1669,
and deacon of the church. Worcester Magazine, ii. 185. JOL-
LIFF. or JOYLIFFE, d. at Boston 1649.
RUGG, JOHN, Lancaster 1654, freeman 1669, whose widow
was killed by the Indians, 1697. Joseph, (probably a son) his wife,
and 3 children were killed at the same time. Amos Willard Rugg,
a descendant, grad. at H. C. 1 805.
RUGGLES, GEORGE, was admitted freeman 1634. His son
Samuel was born at Braintree, 1648. JEFFREY, came from Sud-
bury to N. E. in 1630, and died the same year. Winthrop, i. Hist.
N. E. 47, 379. JOHN, Boston, came to N. E. 1630, admitted
freeman 1632, had a daughter, who d. in Jan. 1631. Prince, ii.
Annals, 17, 69. ||JOHN, Roxbury freeman 1637, member of the
ar. CO. 1646, died about 1658, leaving sons, John, freeman 1663 ;
Thomas ; Samuel, a captain, who died 15 Aug. 1692, and who had
sons, Samuel, Joseph, Thomas, and others. *JOHN, Roxbury,
freeman 1656, representative 1658, 1660, and 1661, had sons, John,
b. 1651 ; John, 2d, 1653 ; Thomas, 1655 ; Samuel, 1657. SAM-
UEL, Charlestown 1647. THOMAS, Roxbury, freeman 1639, d.
16 Nov. 1644.
RUMBALL, DANIEL, was born in 1600, and was of Salem in
1665. 2 Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. viii. 106.
RUSH, JASPER, Dorchester, admitted to the church and free-
man in 1644.
RUSS, JOHN, Newbury 1635^ [Coffin] went to Andovcr, and d.
1692. [Abbot.] His sons were, John, b. 24 June, 1642; Jona-
thao ; Thomas ; Josiah ; and Joseph.
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RUSSELL.
RUSSELL, DANIEL, a preacher, aad a native of Charlestowx^,
grad. inl669 at H. C, of which he was a fellow, and was invited in
1678 to settle as the minister of Charlestown, [See 3 Coll. Mass. Hist.
Soc. i. 261] but he died 4 Jan. 1679. The name of Rusaell h9fi
ever been distinguished in the annalsof Massachusetts, and has {pre-
vailed in all the N. £. states. Forty-seven had grad. at the N. E.
colleges, in 1826, of whom 13 have been clergymen. GEQRGE,
Hingham 1636 ; Scituate between 1636 and 1657. 2 Coll. Mass.
Hist. Soc. iv. 240. The George Russel who was at Boston in I6SO7
is supposed by Hutchinson to have been a younger brother of the
celebrated Lord William Russel, who was beheaded in Lincoln's
Inn Fields, 21 July, 1683, ae. 42. J* JAMES, Charlestown, son of
the Hon. Richard Russell, was born 4 Oct. 1640, admitted freeman
1668, elected representative 1679, assistant from 1680 to 1686,
counsellor under the new charter 1692, was a judge, and treasurer
of Massachusetts, d. 28 April, 1709, ae. 68. His wife was Maybel,
daughter of Gov. Haynes. /OHZV, Charlestown and Boston, final-
ly settled in Boston, where he became the first minister of the Bap-
tist church, 28 July, 1679. He d. 24 Dec. 1680. According to
Benedict, the Russells of Providence and its vicinity are descended
from him. JOHN., Woburn, may be the one admitted freeman in
1644. He is styled in Woburn records, " the Anabaptist," and d.
1 June, 1676. JOHN, Cambridge 1636, may be the qne called
sen,, and admitted freeman in 1681. JOHN, Roxbury, was admjjt-
ted freeman 1654. JOHN, New-Haven, died 1681. Dodd, 146,
162. JOHN, minister of Weathersfield, Conn,, grad. at H. C.
1645, [ W. Winthrop] removed to Hadley in 1 659, and was there
installed,. and d. 10 Nov. 1692. It was in his house in Hadley that
Whalley and GoiTe, twp of the judges who sentenced Charles I to
death, were for a long time concealed, and where they are supposed
to have died. A Philip Russell was pf Hadley in 1664. JONA-
THAN, minister of Barnstable, son of the preceding, grad. .at H.
C. 1675, was ordained 19 Sept. 1683, d. 21 Feb. 1711, ae. $6. His
son Jonathan, who grad. at Y. C. 1708, succeeded his father in the
ministry, 29 Oct. 1712. John Russell, H. C. 1704, a physician of
Barnstable, was probably another son. Lothrop and John Russell,
graduates of H. C. in 1743 and 1751, were of Barnstable. NOA-
DIAH, minister of Middletown, Conn., grad. at H. C. in 1681, was
ordained 24 Oct. 1688, and died 3 De<x 1713, aged 55. He was a
schoolmaster in Ipswich before he settled at Middletown. RALPH,
New-Haven, d. 1679. Dodd, 146, 162. J||*RICHARD, Charles-
town, came from Herefordshire, England, with Maud, his wife^ ^.
1640. He was elected representative 1642, 12 years, and speaker
of the house in 1654, 1656, and 1658 ; member of the ar. co. 1644 ;
assistant from 1659 to 1675, 16 years, and many years treasurer of
the colony. He d. 14 IVJay, 1676, as. 65. Hon. Chambers Russell,
judge of the supreme court of Massachusetts, son of Hon. Daniel
Russell, was one of his descendants. He, grad. at H. C. L731, and
d. 24 Nov. 1767, sb. 54. Hon. Thomas Russell, of Boston, who ^.
1796, was also a descendant. ROBERT Andoyer, d. 17L«, «. 80,
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hairing fire aons. SAMUEL^ minister of Branford, Conn., son of
Rev. John Russell, of Hadley, grad. at H. C. 1681, was ordained
in Martth, 1687, and d. 25 June, 1731, ae. 71. WILLIAM, Cam-
bridge 1645, who, with his wife Martha, was member of the church
in 1658. His, sons were, Joseph, b. in l^ngland ; Benjamin ; John,
b. 1645; Philip; William; Jason, b. 1658; Jesse, b. 1660.
RUST, HENRY, Hinghara 1635, was admitted freeman in
163a [Lincoln, Hist. Hingham, 51.] Rev. Henry Rust, H. C.
1707, was ordained the first minister of Stratham, N. H., in 1718,
and died 20 March, 1749, ». 63. *NATHANIEL, Ipswich, free-
man 1674. was representative in 1600 and 1691. There was a Dr.
Rust of Ipswich about the middle of the last century.
RUTH, VINCENT, Massachusetts, was admitted freeman in
1645. Savage, ii. Winthrop, 374.
RUTTER, JOHN, Sudbury 1642, whose son John, born about
1649, is probably the saime whM» was of Marlborough in 1689, and
mentioned in the Revo, in N. E. Justified, p. 30. Micah M. Rut-
ter, of East-Sudbury, general of the 2d brigade, 3d division of Mass.
railhia, is probably a descendant.
RYDEAT, JOHN. (See Rediat.)
SABIN, BENJAMIN, Rehoboth, 1673, bad a son Benjamin, b.
1673. Rev. John Sabin, Brown College 1797, was ordained minis*
ter of Fitz William, N, H., 6 March, 1805.
SACKETT, SIMON, Cambridge 1632, where it is supposed he
died, as a widow Sackett is afterwards mentioned. SIMON, was
of Springfield, a. 1654. JOHN, an early proprietor of Westfield.
John Sackett was of Northampton in 1660. Rev. Richard Sacket
grad. at Y. C. 1709.
SADLER, ANTHONY, Salisbury, freeman 1639, was (irowned
23 April, 1650. An Anthony Sadler, who m. a daughter of John
Cheney, had a son Abiel, b. 2 Nov. 1650. JOHN, admitted free-
man 1642, was probably of Gloucester, and one of the earliest pro-
prietors . of that town. RICHARD, Lynn, freeman 1638, came
from Worcester, in England, settled at Lynn 1636, where he was
appointed clerk of the writs in 1641. Richard Sadler, perhaps his
qon, came also to N. K but returned home in 1647, and was ordain-
ed at Whixal Chapel, 16 May, 1648, from whence he removed to
Ludlow, in Shropshire, where he was ejected after the restoration,
and died at Whixal, 1675, ae. 55. Calamy. E. Winslow.
SAFFERY, SOLOMON, was a land surveyor as early as 1642.
Hutchinson, i. Hist. Mass. 191.
SAFFORD, THOMAS, Ipswich 1648, d. 1667, leaving a wid-
ow, son Joseph, and three daughters. JOHN, was of Ipswich 1665.
SAFFYN, $*JOHN, Scituate 1650, [Coffin] Boston, freeman
1671, representative 1684 to 1686, 3 years, counsellor under the
charter of William and Mary in 1692 ; d. at Bristol, R. I., ^ July,
1701. 3 Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. i. 137.
SALE, EDWARD, Marblehead, freemaq 1637. Winthrop, ii.
Hist. N. E. 349, where the name is Seale. MANUS, Charlestown,
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whose name is 8aUy in colony records, was admitted freeman 1647.
Ephraim Sale was member of ar. co. 1674.
SALISBURY, JOHN, Swanzey, one of the first victims in Phil-
ip's war, was killed, 24 June, 1675. Swanzey Records.
SALLOWS, MICHAEL, Salem 1635. Thomas, perhaps his
son, died a. 1663.
SALMON, DANIEL, Lynn 1634, was born a. 1610, was a Pe-
quot soldier. He had a son Daniel. Lewis. THOMAS, North-
ampton 1659.
SALTER, WILLIAM, Boston, admitted member of the charch
1635, freeman 1636, had sons, Peleg, b. 1635 ; Jabez, born 1647,
member of the ar. co. 1674 ; Elisha, b. 1653. Savage, i. Winth.
N. E. 248. ii. 216. THEOPHILUS, Ipswich 1648, Salem 1654.
Felt, Annals Salem, 189. Rev. Richard Salter, D. D. grad. at H.
C. 1739.
SALTONSTALL, ^GURDON, minister of New-London and
governour of Connecticut, was son of Col. Nathaniel, and great-
grandson of Sir Richard Saltonstall, and was born at Haverhill, 27
March, 1666, grad. at H. C. 1684, ordained 25 Nov. 1691 ; elected
governour in Jan. 1708 ; died 20 Sept. 1724, ae. 59. His wife, Je-
rusha, who d. at Boston, 25 July, 1697, was daughter of William
Whittingham of Boston, and their descendants still remain in New-
London, and are also in New- York. Allen, Biog. Diet. JIHENRY,
son of Sir Richard Saltonstall, grad. at H. C. 1642, was member of
the ar. co. 1639, went to England, and from thence to Holland in
1644 ; received the degree of M. D. from the University of Padua,
in Italy, Oct. 1649, and a degree at Oxford, 24 June, 1652. Wood,
ii. Fasti Oxon, 100. Whitman. {^NATHANIEL, Haverhill, son
of Richard, and grandson of Sir Richard, was born a. 1639, grad.
at H. C. 1659, took the oath of fi'eeman 1665, was representative
1666, 1669 to 1671, four years, captain 1670, elected assistant 1679
to 1682, and again from 1689 to 1692 ; colonel of the Essex regi-
ment, counsellor under the charter of William and Mary, died 21
May, 1707. His wife was a daughter of Rev. John Ward, by
whom he left 3 sons, Gurdon, already noticed, Richard, and Na-
thaniel, both H. C. 1695, and one daughter, Elizabeth, wife of Mr.
Denison and Rev. Roland Cotton. (See Cotton.) Richard, the
2d son, resided in Haverhill ; had 2 sons, who were educated at H.
C, 1. Richard, b. 14 June, 1703, grad. 1722, a judge of the su-
periour court, who died 20 Oct. 1756, ae. 53, leaving 3 sons and 2
daughters, and 2. Nathaniel, a merchant, who grad. in 1727, and d.
young. Richard, one of the 3 sons of Judge Richard, was born 5
April, 1732, grad. at H. C. 1754, was a colonel in the old French
war ; became a loyalist in the time of the revolution, went to
England and d. at Kensington, 6 Oct. 1785, aged 53. Nathaniel, his
brother, a physician of Haverhill, was b. 10 Feb. 1746, grad. at H.
C. 1766, d. 10 Feb. 1796, aged 50, [Winthrop, MS Catalogue]
leaving 3 sons, one of whom is the Hon. Leverett Saltonstall, an
tminent couiksellor at law of Salem, Mass., who graduated at H. C.
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1802. 2 Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. iv. 159^167. ||PET£R, probably
a son of Sir Richard, was a member of the ar. co. in 1644. Whit-
man. ISiR RICHARD, son of Samuel, and grandson of Gilbert
Saltonstall, esq., of Halifax, in Yorkshire, came to N. E. in 1630,
and resided a short time at Watertown, from whence he returned to
England in 1631. He was the first named associate to the six ori-
ginal patentees of Massachusetts, and one of the first assistants,
and present at their first court, 23 Aug. 1630. He lived until
1658, when his will was made, and probably some time afterwards.
2 Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. iv. 154. He had sons, Richard, Henry,
Samuel, Robert, Peter. He had also two daughters, who, in 1644,
resided in the family of the Earl of Warwick, and Lady Manches-
ter. MS Letter of Rosamond Saltonstall, 1644. |:*R1CHARD,
son of the preceding, was born in 1610, came to N. E. 1630, and
settled at Ipswich. He was admitted freeman 1631, representative
in 1635 and 1636, elected assistant 1637 to 1649, and 1664 ; went
to England 1672, returned in 1680, and again elected assistant
1680, 1681, and 1682, went to England in 1683, and remained
there. He d. at Hulme, 29 April, 1694, aged 84. He left an es-
tate in Yorkshire. Ibid., 137. ||ROBERT, son of Sir Richard,
and probably the same named by Hutchinson, [i. Hist. Mass. 22, 98]
was a member of the ar. co. in 1638. SAMUEL, Watertown 1642,
son of Sir Richard, d. 21 Jan. 1696. In the archives of the Amer.
Antiquarian Soc. at Worcester, is a letter from his sister, Rosamond
Saltonstall, dated at Warwick-house, 26 April, 1644, in which she
speaks of his being ** likely to be a constant settler*' at Watertown.
SAMS, JOHN, received his education in N. E. and went to
England, and was the successor of Rev. John Owen, D. D., at
Coggeshall, in Essex, fi-om whence he was ejected, and died a 1675.
Calamy, ii. Account, 303. THOMAS, Salem 1638, Marblehead
1648. One of the name of Sams graduated at Brown College in
1806.
SAMPSON, IIROBERT, member of the ar. co. 1639. HEN-
RY, Plymouth 1623, married Ann Plumer, and settled in Duxbury.
Davis, Morton's Memo. 377. RICHARD, Boston, freeman 1674.
Seven of the name had grad. at the N. E. colleges in 1828.
SANBORN, JOHN, STEPHEN, and WILLIAM, were of
Hampton in 1643. Their descendants are numerous in N. Hamp-
shire, where is a large and flourishing township, settled principally
by the name, and which is called Sanbornton.
SANDERBANK, JOHN, Massachusetts, freeman 1643.
SANDERSON, ROBERT, Watertown 1642, had son Joseph,
b. 1642. A Deacon Robert Sanderson d. at Boston, 7 Oct. 1696.
SANDEN, ARTHUR, Marblehead 1648.
SANDYS, HENRY, a merchant of Boston, admitted freeman
1640, had a son John, b. in 1646. A Henry Sands is mentioned
as of Rowley in 1643.
SANFORD, JOHN, Boston, admitted freeman in 1632, under
the name of Sampefard in colony records, and in Prince, ii. AnniUs,
69 ; was disarmed 1637 [Savage, ii. Winth. N. E. 2481 ; went to R.
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I., and was secretary and treasurer of that colony* Sixteen of the
name had grad. at the N. E. colleges in 1828. JOHN, freeman
1670. JAMES, Boston, d. 2 Nov. 1661. §P£LEG, Rhode-Island,
was governour of the colony 1686, 1681, and 1682. RICHARD,
Boston, member of the church 1640, freeman 1641. [jROBERT,
Boston 1650, freeman 1652, member of the ar. co. 1661. THO-
MAS, whose name is spelled Samford, was admitted freeman in
1637. IITHOMAS, member of the ar. co. 1666.
SARGENT, WILLIAM, Ipswich 1634, afterwards of Newbury,
Salisbury, and of Amesbury, where Mr. Coffin says he died. Twen*
ty-oneof the name of Sargeant and Sargent had grad. in N. E. in
1828. ♦WILLIAM, Gloucester, representative 1671, 1690, and
1691. WILLIAM, Charlestown 1642. (See Sergbant.)
SAUNDERS, DANIEL, Cambridge, d. 27 Feb. 1640. This
name, which is also written Sanders, has furnished 8 graduates at
the N. E. colleges. JOHN, Weymouth, was the overseer of Wea-
ton's plantation in 1623. Prince, i. Annals, 127. I. Mather, Ind.
Wars from 1614 to 1675, 12. Morton's Memo., 41. JOHN, Ipswich
1634, probably the freeman under 1636. There were two others of
the name of John Saunders admitted freemen in 1640 and 1650, one
of whom was of Braintree, and m. Mary Munjoy in 1657. *JOHN,
Newbury 1645, born a. 1625 [Coffin] ; representative in 1654, had
daughters, Sarah and Mary, b. in 1646 and 1649. MARTIN,
Braintree, freeman 1640, whose wife, Rachel, d. Sept. 1651 ; m. in
1654, Elizabeth Ba^icroft, and in 1655, Lydia Hardier. ||ROB-
ERT, Cambridge 1636, member of the ar. co. 1638, freeman 1639.
WILLIAM, a carpenter of Massachusetts 1636. Winthrop, ii.
Hist. N. E. 347.
SARTELL, RICHARD, Watertown. (See Sawtbll.)
SAVAGE, *||EPHRAIM, Boston, son of Major Thomas Savage,
was b. 20 July, 1645, grad. at H. C. 1662, admitted freeman 1672,
member of the ar. co. 1674, captain of the same in 1683. He
served in the expedition to Canada in 1690, was representative of
Boston, 1703 to 1708, and 1710, seven years. He d. in the winter
of 1730 — 1, leaving daughters, Sarah, Mary, and Hannah, who all
married. John, his son, was born 30 Nov. 1674, and grad. at H. C.
1694. IIHABIJAH, Boston, eldest brother of the preceding, was
born 1 August, 1638, graduated at Harvard College 1659, admitted
freeman 16(65, member of the ar. co. 1665, and was a captain of
the militia, and d. in 1668 or 1669. He m. Hannah, a daughter of
Hon. Edward Tyng, 8 May, 1661, and his children were, 1. Joseph,
b. 15 Aug 1662 ; 2. Thomas, b. 17 Aug. 1664 ; 3. and 4. Hannah
and Mary, (gemini) b. 27 Aug. 1667. HENRY, HavethiU 1644.
[Coffin.] John Savage was of Portsmouth 1732. J||*THOMAS,
Boston, came to N. E. as early as 1635, admitted freeman 1636,
member of ar. co. 1637, and its captain in 1651. He represented Bos-
ton in 1654, and the 8 succeeding years ; Hingham in 1663; Andover
in 1671, 1677, and 1678, and was speaker of the house in 1659 and
1671. He was a major, and at one time was commander-in-chief of the
forces in the early part of Philip's War 1675 ; was elected assistant
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io 1080 and 1681, aod died 14 Feb. 1683, ». 73. By his lat wife.
Faith, (who d. 3D Feb. 1653) daughter of WilUan» and the eeiebralr
ed Ann Hutchinson, he had seven children ; and by liis 3d, Mary,
(whom he m. 15 Sept. 1653) daughter of Rev. Z. Syinmes, he had
eleven. His 18 children were, 1. Habijah, already noticed ; 3. Tho-
mas (in next section) ; 3i Hannah, b. 1643 ; 4. Ephrairp, above pot
ticed ; 5. Mary, b. 1647 ; 6, Dyonisia, b. 1649 ; 7. Perez, born 17
Feb. 1653, a lieutenant in Philip's War, and honourably named by
Hubbard, pp. 19, 40, and who died unmarried, in Macl^ano^se, in
Barbary, 1694 ; 8. Sarah, b. 1653 ; 9. Richard, b. 1654 t 10. Sanir
uel, b. 1656; 11. Samuel, 3d, b. 1657; 13, Zechariah, b, 1658;
13. Ebenezer, born 33 May, J 660, member of the ar. co. 168?, m,
Martha Allen ; 14. John, b. 1661 ; 15. benjamin, b. October, 1663,
member of the ar. CO, 1683; 16. Arthur, b. 16f>4; 17. Elizabeth,'
b. 1667 ; 18. Elizabeth, 3d, b. 1669. The 9, 10, 13, J4. 17, and
18 died in infancy or young. Eleven of the name, and all of them
descendants of Major Savage, had grad. at H. C. in 1838. See
Whitman, Hist, Ar. Co. 40. Savage, i. Winthrop, 348. ii. 53, 316,
Hubbard. Hutchinson. Alden. ||THOMAS, Boston, second son
of the preceding, was b. 88 May, 1640, became member of the ar.
CO. in 1665, was an officer in Sir William Phipps' expedi^on to
Canada, 1691, and a lieutenant-colonelgof the Suffolk regiment. Hq
d. 3 July, 1705, se. 65. He m. Elizabeth, daughter of Joshua Seot-
^w, of Boston, by whom he had, 1. Thoinas, b. 30 July, 1665; 8r
Thomas, 3d, b. 3 August, 1668; 3. Scottow, b. 4 Feb. 1671 ; 4.
Habijah, b. 10 Sept, 1674 ; 5. Elizabeth, b. 4 Aug. 1677 ; 6. Ar-
thur, b. 39 March, 1680: 7. Faith, b. 11 Aug. 1683 ; 8. Faith, 3d,
b. 3 Oct. 1683; 9. Lydia, b. 6 Sept. 1686. Habijah, his 4th spn,
grad. at H. C. 1695, was a lieutenant-colonel, and was representa^
tive of Boston three years, and d. 16 Sept. 1746, ae. 73. Thomas,
3d son of lieut. col. Habijah, wa? born 5 Jap. 1711, died 19 Dec.
.1760, and was grandfather of the learned and distinguished antif
quary of New-England, whose valuable notes in his edition of Win?
thiop's Hist. N. E. have been so oftep cited in this work.
SAVILL, EDWARD, Weymouth, whose son Obadiah was b. ii|
1640. WILLIAM, Braintree 1640, had soqs, John, born 33 April,
1643, freeman 1684; Samuel, b. 30 Oct. 1643; Benjamin, b. <J^
Oct. 1645; William, b. 17 July, 16$3.
SAVORY, ANTHONY and THOMAS, caroe firpip Sladp, in
Devonshire, before 1640. Anthony settled near Merrimack River^
There was a Robert Savory of Newbury 1657.
SAWIN, THOMAS, was admitted freeman 1653.
SAWTELL, RICHARD, Watertown 1639, had a son Jonathai?
bofn in 1639, freeman 1671, one of the early settlers of Qroton, a?
were also Obadiah, Richard, and Zechariah Sawtell, who might b^
sons of Richard. THOMAS, Massachusetts, was admitted freemai^
in 1649.
SAWYER, EDWAJtp, Rowley 1643. Coffin. HENRY,
York 1675. Hubbard. THOMAS, Lancaster, 1647, whose wif^
fwas Mary, had sons, Thomas, Ephraim, Joshi^a, James, Caleb, fi9f
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thaniel, and several daughters. WILLIAM, Salem and Newbury,
had sons, John, b. 24 August, 1645, freeman 1681 ; Samuel, b. 22
Sept. 1648, freeman 1673 ; and several daughters. Twelve of the
name are on the catalogues of Harvard and Yale.
SAXTON, GILES, came to N. E. as early as 1630, was admit-
ted freeman 18 May, 1631. If he was the minister of Scituate, he
came from Yorkshire, and according to Mather returned to Eng-
land in his old age.
SA YLE, WILLIAM, a captain, and sometime governour of Ber-
muda, was in Boston in 1646, and the same year sailed for England,
where he was in 1647, but came over again in 1648. Winslow,
N. E. Salamander Discovered, 17. Winthrop, ii. 334.
SAYRE, JOB, Lynn 1635, went to Long-Island. Lewis. THO-
MAS, Lynn, 1635, was one of the grantees of South-Hampton, L. I.
1640. This name exists in N. J., where several have grad. at its
college. Ebeaezer Sayer grad. at H. C. 1768.
SAYS, THOMAS, Massachusetts^ freeman 1639. Perhaps
Sayre^ above.
SAYWARD, HENRY, Hampton 1646. Coffin.
SAYWELL, DAVID, Massachusetts, freeman 1666.
SCADLOCK, WILLIAM, Saco, whose name is put Chaddock
in Sullivan, p. 218, 219, died in 1662. Geo. Folsom.
SCAL^ JOHN, Rowley 1648, was a member of the church
before 1667, THOMAS, Massachusetts, was admitted freeman
1640. WILLIAM, Rowley 1640. Coffin. Four of the name,
viz : James ; his son Stephen, William, and Abraham, grad, at H.
C. in 1733, 1763, 1771, and 1800.
SCAMMON, RICHARD, Portsmouth 1642, m. Prudence, only
daughter of William Waldron, had son William, b. in 1664. WIL-
LIAM, Boston 1640.
SCARBOROUGH, ||JOHN, Roxbury, freeman 1640; member
of ar. CO. 1643, was killed by the discharge of a gun, 9 June, 1645.
Samuel Scarborough died at Roxbury, of the small pox, in 1721.
SCARLET, JOHN, Boston 1653, had a son John born in 1657.
Samuel Scarlet was of Boston in 1665.
SCOFIELD, RICHARD, Ipswich 1648. Frederick, Azariah,
and Jared Scofield grad. at Y. C. in 1801. Several of the name
Scovely ScoveU, and Scovil, have grad. at the N. E. colleges.
SCOTCHFORD, JOHN, Concord 1635, was town clerk, m.
Susanna Meriam, and d. 10 June, 1696, without issue. Shattuck.
SCOTT, BENJAMIN, Cambridge and Braintree, had sons. b.
in the last place, John, b. 1640; Joseph, b. 1644; Benjamin, born
1646 ; John, 2d, b. 1648. A Benjamin Scott d. at Rowley in 167L
EDWARD, Hadley 1662. Coffin. JOHN, Massachusetts, was
admitted freeman in 1643. JOHN, whose name is spelled Skoi in
the colony records, was admitted freeman in 1639. RICHARD,
Boston, a shoemaker, was admitted member of the church 28 Aug.
1634. Savage, i. Winth. N. E. 151, 293. ||ROBERT, Boston,
freeman 1637, member of the ar. co. 1637, had sons, Nathaniel, b.
1638; Redemption, b. 1652; Eleazar, b. 1654. ROGER, Lynft
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1642. Lewis. THOMAS, Cambridge 1635, probably removed to
Ipswich and d. 1654. His son Thomas, of Ipswich in 1648, and
of Stamford in 1654, d. 1657. Coffin. Felt.
SCOTTOW, IIJOSHUA, Boston, freeman 1639, member of ar.
CO. 1645; its ensign in 1657, a captain, and the author of two
tracts published in Boston 1691 and 1694! He d. in 1698. Of his
seven children noted in the records, 4 are named in his will, viz. :
Thomas, b. 30 June, 1659, grad. at H. C. 1677 ; Elizabeth, wife of
Lieut.-coI. Thomas Savage ; Rebecca, who m. B. Blackman, and
Mary, wife of Capt. Samuel Checkley. Scotts is the name of a
place in Norfolk co., England. 2 Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. iv. 101.
Mr. Felt gives the name of Sarah as the one who m. Mr. Blackman.
THOMAS, brother of the preceding, was a joiner, lived in Boston ;
was admitted freeman 1639, and member of the church. Ibid.
Snow, Hist. Boston, 116.
SCRANTON, JOHN, Guilford 1650. I Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc.
X., where the name is Scrahtom, DENNIS, who is mentioned in
Hutchinson's Coll. p. 335, was probably of Connecticut.
SCRUGGS, ♦THOMAS, Salem, freeman and representative in
1635 ; soon after banished from Massachusetts. Felt, MS Annals.
WILLIAM. Salem, died a. 1654. Ibid.
SCUDDER, JOHN, Salem 1647. THOMAS, Salem, died a.
1658. This has been a common name in N. J.
SCULLARD, SAMUEL, Newbury 1637, d. April, 1647, leaving
issue.
SEABURY, JOHN, Boston, had a son Samuel, born 1640.
SAMUEL, Duxbury, one of the early settlers, and a chirurgeon,
might have lived in Weymouth in 1660. He died in 1680. Rev.
Samuel Seabury grad. at H. C. 1724.
SEAGAR, THOMAS, Newbury 1637.
SEARCH. JOHN, Boston, freeman 1642. Anna, his wife, d.
II May, 1674, ». 85.
SEARLE, ANDREW, Massachusetts, was born in England, a.
1616. William Searle was of Ipswich in 1667. Ephraim Searle
was admitted freeman 1671.
SEARS, RICHARD, Salem 1638. THOMAS, Newbury, m.
Mary Hilton 1656, and d. 26 May, 1661.
SEAVER, ROBERT, Roxbury, freeman 1637, had sons, Shu-
bael, b. 1639, who was living in 1724 ; Caleb, b. 1641, d. at Boston,
6 March, 1714. Nicholas Sever, of this femily, grad. at H. C. 1701,
was the minister of Dover, N. H., from 1711 to 1715, removed to
Plymouth co. and was judge of the court of common pleas ; died 7
April, 1764, aged 84. His son, Hon. William Sever, A. A. S., who
grad. at H. C. 1745, was judge of probate in Plymouth co., and d.
in June, 1809, ae. 81.
SEAVEY, WILLIAM, Portsmouth 1631 ; selectman in 1657.
Capt. William Seavey a patriot of the revolution, d. at Rye, N. H.,
March, 1829, ae. 84.
SECCOMBE, RICHARD, came from the west of England, and
settled at Lynn as early as 1660, and d. 1694. His children were,
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Noah, Richard, and Susanna. He is the ancestor of Rev. John, of
Harvard, Ms., H. C. 1728, Rev. Joseph, of Kingston, N. H., H. C.
1731, and of John Secombe, esq., of Amherst, N. H. Seccombe
is the name of a place in the Isle of Purbeck, on the coast of Dor-
setshire
SEDGWICK, ||*ROBERT, Charlestown, freeman 1637, repre-
sentative and member of the ar. co. 1637, captain of the ar. co.
1640, and the 4th major-general of Massachusetts. He went to
England, where, it is said, some of his descendants reside, and was
employed by Cromwell in 1654. He was engaged in the great ex-
pedition against the Spanish West-Indies, when Jamaica was taken.
There he d. 24 May, 1656, having, as appears from Thurloe's State
Papers, v. 138, 154, just been advanced to the rank of major-gen-
eral by the protector. William and Robert Sedgwick, probably his
sons, were members of the ar. co. in 1666 and 1674. One of them
on returning from Jamaica, which place he had visited, died on
his passage, and was buried at Boston. Benjamin, one of his de-
scendants, was father to Hon. Theodore Sedgwick, judge of the
superior court of Mass., a native of Hartford, b. in May, 1746, and
died at Boston, 24 Jan. 1813. He left a son, Theodore Sedgwick,
esq., and a daughter, who is the lady of so much literary celebrity.
Hutchinson, i. Hist. Mass. 169. Savage, ii. Winthrop, 247. Lord,
ii. Lempriere, 612. Edwards Hist. West-Indies.
SEDLEY, JAMES, Weymouth, at an early period.
SEELEY, ROBERT, Watertown, freeman 1631, was perhaps
the Lieut. Siely, or Seeley, in the Pequot war. I. Mather, 42.
Capt. Sieley of Stratford was killed in battle with the Indians, 19
Dec. 1675. Hutchinson, i. Hist. Mass. 271. The name of Seele
is common in Bristol co. Mass.
SEERS, JOHN, Woburn, was b. 1613, admitted freeman 1641.
SELLICK, DAVID, Boston, had sons, David, Jonathan, and
John, b. in 1638, 1641, and 1643.
8ELWYN, HENRY, minister of Brooklyn, L. I. was installed
1660, resided at New-Amsterdam ; went to Holland, it is said, in
1664, but probably returned.
SENDALL, SAMUEL, Boston, freeman 1645, lived in Newbury
in 1653.
SENSION, MATTHIAS, Massachusetts, freeman 1634. Sav-
age, ii. Winthrop, 364.
SERGEANT, WILLIAM, Charlestown, freeman 1638, perhaps
the preacher at Maiden, mentioned by Johnson, Hist. N. E. 211.
He had several children born at Charlestown as early as 1644.
fPETER, one of the council of safety 1689, and one of the first
counsellors under the new charter 1692. Madam Sergeant, per-
haps his wife, d. 10 Nov. 1700. Interleaved Almanack.
SESSIONS, ALEXANDER, Andover, freeman 1677, had sons,
John, born 1674 ; Alexander ; Timothy ; Samuel ; Nehemiah ;
Josiah, and Joseph. Abbot, Hist. Andover, 36. Hon. Darius Ses-
sions, Y. C. 1737, was lieutenant-govern6ur of R. I.
SEVER, ROBERT, Roxbury. (See Seaver.)
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SEVERANCE, JOHN, Ipswich 1636, was a proprietor and in-
habitant of Salisbury in 1640, where he d. 9 April, 1682.
SEVERENE, ||JOHN, Boston, freeman 1637, member of ar.
CO. 1642.
SEW ALL, IIDAVID, member of the ar. co. 1664. Whitman,
158. HENRY, Newbury and Rowley, son of Henry Sewall, the
mayor of Coventry, in England, 1606, [Dugdale, Antiq. Warw.] was
baptized 8 April, 1576, came to N. E. and settled first at Newbury,
thence removed to Rowley, and d. there in March, 1656. •HEN-
RY, son of the preceding, came to N. E. in 1634, freeman 1637,
settled at Newbury, returned to England, a. 1647, resided at War-
wick, Bishop-Stoke, and at Baddesly, of which place he was the
minister [Hutchinson, i. Hist. Mass. 455] ; returned to N. E. in
1659, sent for his family which came over in 1661, was representa-
tive 1661, 1663, 1668, and 1670. He died at Newbury, 16 May,
1700, SB. 86. He m. Jane, daughter of Stephen and Alice Dum-
mer, 25 March, 1646, by whom, (who d. 13 Jan. 1701) he had, 1.
Hannah, b. at Tun worth, England, 10 May, 1649, m. Jacob Tappan,
of Newbury, and d. 12 Nov. 1699 ; 2. Sfimuel (see next article) ;
8. John, b, 10 Oct. 1654, m. 27 Oct. 1674, Hannah Fessenden, and
d. 8 Aug. 1699 ; 4. Stephen, b. 19 Aug. 1657, m. 13 June, 1682,
Margaret, daughter of Rev. Jonathan Mitchel, and d. 17 Oct. 1725 ;
5. Jane, b. 25 Oct. 1659, m. 24 Sept. 1677, Moses Gerrish, and d.
29 Jan. 1717 ; 6. Ann, b. 3 Sept. 1662, m. in 1676, William Long-
fellow; 7. Mehitabel, b. 8 May, 1665, m. William Moody, and d. 8
Aug. 1702;' 8. Dorothy, b. 29 Oct. 1668, m. Ezekiel Northend, of
Rowley, 10 Sept. 1691. The 3, 4, and 5, were b. in Baddesly, the
6, 7, and 8, in Newbury. From John, the 2d son, descended Hon.
David Sewall, LL. D., H. C. 1755, Professor Stephen Sewall, H.
C. 1761, and William B. Sewall, H. C. 1803. From Stephen, the
3d son, Mitchel Sewall, H. C. 1718, Chief Justice Stephen Sewall,
H. C. 1721, Jonathan Sewall, H. C. 1748, and the late Jonathan
Mitchel Sewall , of Portsmouth, derived their descent, j: { | SAMUEL,
Boston, son of the preceding, was born at Bishop-Stoke^ in England,
28 March, 1652, came to N. E. in 1661, grad. at H. C. 1671, was
admitted freeman 1678, became a member of the ar. co. 1679, of
which he was captain in 1701. He was elected an assistant 1684
to 1686, and again from 1689 to 1691 , six years ; was one of the
first counsellors under the new charter 1692, and continued in office
until 1725, and was the last survivor of the first named counsellors.
He was appointed judge of the superiour court 1692 ; chief justice in
1718 ; judge of prob. in 1715, and d. at Boston, 30 Jan. 1730, in his
78th year. He m. 28 Feb. 1676, Hannah, only child of Hon. John Hull,
with whom he received, it is said, .£30,000 in N. E. shillings. He had
14 children, of whom 6 arrived to adult age, viz. : 1. Samuel, b. 11
June, 1678, m. Rebecca, daughter of Gov. Joseph Dudley, and settled
in Brookline, d. 27 Feb. 1751, «. 72; 2. Hannah, b. 1680, d. unmar-
ried; 3. Elizabeth, b. 29 Dec. 1681, m. Grove Hirst, esq., 17 Oct.
1700, and d. 10 July, 1716 ; 4. Joseph, D. D., b. 15 Aug. 1688,
grad. at H. C. 1707, ordained as colleague pastor with Rev. £. Pern-
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SEWALL. SHATTUCK.
berton, of the Old South, Boston, 16 Sept. 1713, d. 27 June, 1769,
in his 81st year, leaving son Samuel, b.2 May, 1715, grad. atH. C.
1733, d. 19 Jan. 1771, the &ther of the late Samuel Sewall, LL. D.,
the third chief justice of the supreme court of Massachusetts, of
the name of Sewall, who was b. at Boston, 11 Dec. 1757, grad. at
H. C. 1776, d. at Wiscasset, Me., 7 June, 1814, whose sons, Rev.
Samuel Sewall, of Burlington, and Rev Edmund Quincy Sewall,
of Boston, grad. at H. C. 1804 and 1815 ; 5. Mary, born 28 Oct.
1691, m. Samuel Gerrish, of Boston, and d. 16 Nov. 1710 ; 6. Ju-
dith, b. 2 Jan. 1702, m. Rev. William Cooper, of Boston, 12 May,
1720, and d. 23 Dec. 1720.
SEWARD, EDWARD, Ipswich 1637, whose name is also spell-
ed Sayward, ROBERT, Portsmouth 1649.
SEWELL, THOMAS, Massachusetts 1649. Winthrop [ii. Hist.
N. E. 184] gives an account of a Nathaniel Sewell who was mur-
dered. There appears to have been an Edward Sewell living in
Exeter in 1683.
SEXTON, GILES, came from Yorkshire and was minister of
Scituate. (See Saxton.) THOMAS, Boston, had sons, Thomas,
b. 1647; Samuel, b. 1653, d. at Boston 1693; Joseph, born 1656.
James Sexton was of Westfield in 1686.
SEYLE, or SAYLE, FRANCIS, Massachuestts, admitted free-
man 1640. WILLIAM. (See Sayle.)
SHAFFLIN, MICHAEL, Salem. (See Chafplin.)
SHAPLEIGH, ALEXANDER, Kittery^ a. 1660. Only one of
this name, Samuel, H. C. 1789, has grad. in N. E. NICHOLAS,
Boston 1645, who had a son Benjamin b. that year. He may have
removed to Kitteryas early as 1652, and have been the Major Shap-
leigh, mentioned by Hubbard, Ind. Wars.
SHARP, ROBERT, Braintree 1642, d. at Roxbury, July, 1653.
His son John, b. 12 March, 1643, was probably the lieutenant kill-
ed by Indians, with Capt. Wadsworth and others, 27 April, 1676.
SAMUEL, was chpsen in London, 30 April, 1629, to be one of
John Endicott's council at Salem, and the same year came to N.
E., and was admitted freeman in 1632. He succeeded Mr. Haugh-
ton as ruling elder of Salem church, and d., according to Dr. Bent-
lejr, in 1658, but Mr. Felt says, 1656 or 7. His children were,
Elias, baptized 1 Jan. 1637 ; Edward, bap. 14 April, 1639 ; Mary,
1640 ; Experience, (daughter) 1641 ; Nathaniel, 10 Nov. 1644.
Alice, his widow, d. 1667. Felt, Annals, 194, 231. JTHOMAS,
Boston, was chosen assistant in England, 20 Opt. 1629, and came
to N. E. in 1630 and was one of the founders of the first church in
Boston. His house was burnt in 1631, and he returned to England
the same year. Prince, i. Annals, 195, 247. ii. 22.
SH ATS WELL, JOHN, Ipswich 1634, was deacon of the church.
RICHARD, Ipswich 1648, d. 13 July, 1694, ae. about 64. THE-
OPHILUS, Haverhill, d. 1663. Coffin.
SHATTUCK, SAMUEL, a felt-maker, of Salem, was admitted
member of the church, 15 May, 1642, from which he was ex-com-
municated, having embraced the sentiments of the Quakers. He
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SHATTUCK. SHEAPE.
went to England but returned, and was living in 1692. Calef,
More Wonders. His children were, Samuel, b. 1649 ; Retire, b.
1664, and six daughters. WILLIAM, Watertown 1642, died 14-
Aug. 1672, SB. 50. By his wife, Susanna, who, after his death, m.,
18 Nov. 1673, Richard Norcross, and d. 11 Dec. 1686, he had 10
children, 1. Susanna, b. 1643, m. Joseph Morse, 1661 ; 2. Mary, b.
25 Aug. 1645, m. Jonathan Brown, 1661 ; 3. John, born 11 Feb.
1646, m. Ruth Whitney, 20 June, 1664, lived in Watertown, and
was drowned as he was passing over Charlestowu ferry, 14 Sept.
1675, leaving John, b. 4 June, 1666; Ruth, b. 1668; William, b.
11 Sept. 1670, and Samuel, of whom John had 7 children, lived in
Groton, and according to tradition was killed by the Indians, 8
May, 1709, and left an only son Jonathan, b. 29 April, 1693,
the grandfather to Dr. Caleb Shattuck, of Oakham, Mass., who
grad. at D. C. 1794, and great-grandfather of the historian of Con-
cord, Mass. ; 4. Philip, father of Rev. Benjamin Shattuck, of Lit-
tleton, Mass., b. 15 March, 1685, grad. at H. C. 1709, ordained 25
Dec. 1717, whose son Stephen, b. 10 Feb. 1710, was father of Dr.
Benjamin, of Templeton, Mass., b. 11 Nov. 1742, grad. H. C. 1765,
died 14 Jan. 1794, s. 52, leaving sons, Benjamin, H. C. 1797, and
George Cheyne, M. D., of Boston ; 5. Rebecca, who m. Samuel
Church ; 6. Joanna, who d. 1672 ; 7. William, of Watertown, who
had 8 children ; 8. Benjamin ; 9. Abigail, who m. Jona. Morse ; 10.
Samuel. L. Shattuck, MS Letter.
SHAW, ABRAHAM, Dedham, freeman 1637. ANTHONY,
Boston, whose son William was b. 1654. JOHN, Plymouth 1638.
Davis, Morton's Memo. 384. ||JOHN, Bostbn, member of the ar.
CO. 1646, had sons, John, b. 1648, freeman 1681 ; Samuel, b. 1651 ;
Joseph, b. 1657, He d. 23 July, 1687. JOSEPH, Hingham, re-
moved to Bridgewater, and was among the settlers of that place.
JOSEPH, Dedham 1636, freeman 1639, and probably of Weymouth
in 1643. *ROGER, Cambridge 1636, freeman 1638 ; removed to
Hampton, which he represented in 1651 and 1652. He d. 1660,
leaving sons, Joseph and Benjamin, and 4 daughters. THOMAS,
Charlestown, whose son John was b. in 1647. Twenty-three of the
name had grad. in N: E. in 1828.
SHAVE, THOMAS, Hingham 1637. Lincoln, Hist. Hingham,
45.
SHEAFE, JACOB, Guilford 1643, one of the seven pillars of
the church. 1 Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. x. 92. He may be the fol-
lowing. II JACOB, Boston, member of ar. co. 1648, came from
Cambrock, in Kent, and died 22 March, 1658, se. 58. j^Alden, iii.
Coll. Epitaphs, 164.] He m. Margaret, daughter of Henry Webb,
and left two daughters, Elizabeth, b. 1644, who m. Robert Gibbs,
and Mehetabel, the wife of Sampson Sheafe, who settled at New-
Castle, N. H., and was a provincial counsellor in 1698, whose son
Sampson, b. at Newcastle in 1681, grad. at H. C. 1702, died 1772,
aged 91, was father of Jacob Sheafe, esquire, a merchant of Ports-
mouth, who d. 26 June, 1791, sb. 75. Hon. James Sheafe, H. C.
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SHED. SHBPARP.
1774, is son of the last, as was alsp Jacob Sheafe, ei«|uire, who d.
at Portsmouth, 25 Jaa. 1839, qa. 81.
SHED, DANIEL, firaintree 1647, remo?ed to BiUerica befi>re
1675. Sons, Daniel, b. 3 Aug. 1647 ; John, b. 2 March, 1655,
both of whom settled in fiillerica ; Zechariah, bom 17 Juno, 1656.
His daughters were Mary, Hannah, Elizabeth^
SHEDER, JOHN, Guilford 1650. 1 Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc.
X. 92.
SHEFFIELD, EDMUND, Braintree, freeman 1644, d. 13 Oct.
1705, IB. 90. He had sons, Edmund, b. 15 Pec. 1646 : Isaac, b.
15 March, 1652 ; Matthew, b. 14 Juhq, 1653 ; Samuel, born Nov.
1657.
SHELDON, ISAAC, Dorchester 1634, removed to Windsor as
early as 1640, and perhaps to Northampton, a. 1658. The one at
Northampton had 15 children. JOHN, freeman 1680. WILLIAM,
BiUerica 1659. Sixteen of the name had grad. in N. E. in 1828.
SHELLEY, ROBERT, Scituate 1638, removed to Barnstable.
SHEPARD, EDWARD, Cambridge, freeman 1643, His first
wife, Violet, died 9 Jan. 1649. His second wile was Mary. His
children were, John, Abigail, and Deborah, born in England ; and
Sarah, who was baptized in Braintree. JOHN, Massachusets, firee-
man 1640. JEREMIAH, minister of Lynn, son of Rev. Thomas
Shepard, of Cambridge, was b. 11 Aug. 1648, grad, at H. C. 1669,
admitted fi-eeman 1680, d. 2 June, 1720, s. 72. Before his settle-
ment at Lynn, he preached at Rowley. Mary, his wife, died 28
March, 1710, ae. 53. His children were, Hannah, born 1676, m.
John Downing, of Boston ; Jeremiah, b. 1677, d. 1700; Mehetabel,
who d. 1688 ; Nathaniel, b. 16 June, 1681 ; Margaret, who d. 1683 ;
Thomas, b. 1687, d. 1709 ; Francis, who d. 1692 ; John, who m.
Alice Tucker, 1722 ; Mehetabel, 2d, who m. Rev. James AUin, of
Brookline. Lewis. *JOHN, Lynn, representative 1689, may have
been brother of the preceding. JOHN, Cambridge, son of Edward
Shepard, was admitted freeman in 1650. His children were, John ;
Sarah; Violet; Elizabeth; Edward, b. 1662; Samuel, born 1664;
and Thomas, b. 1666. RALPH, Dedham 1636, Weymouth 1639.
||*SAMUEL, Cambridge, brother of Rev. Thomas Shepard, arrived
in N. E. 2 Oct. 1635, freeman 1636, representative 1639, 1640,
1644, and 1645, member of ar. co. 1640, returned to Europe, and
in 1658 was a major, and living in Ireland. His wife was Hannah,
and his children were, Thomas, born 1638 ; Samuel, b. 1639, died
1646 ; Jane, b. 1645, who remained in N. E. SAMUEL, minis-
ter of Rowley, son of Rev. Thomas Shepard, of Cambridge, was b.
Oct. 1641, grad. at H. C. 1658, admitted member of the church at
Cambridge, 19 July, 1663, ordained 15 Nov. 1665, and d. 7 April,
1668, s. 26. His son Samuel, baptized 25 August, 1667, grad. at
H. C. 1685. His wife, it is supposed, was daughter of Rev. Henry
Flint. THOMAS, third minister of Cambridge, was son of Wil-
liam Shepard, and was born in Towcester, in Northamptonshire,
England, 5. Nov. 1605 [his MS diary] ; was educated at Emmanuel
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gHEPARD. gfiBRMAN.
College ; came to N. E., oil his second atteti^ to come thither, 3
Oct 1635, fre^miLii 16S6$ a»d settled at Cattibtidgl^} over a new
church) 1 Feb. 1636. Me d. 95 Axtg, 1649^ cb: 44. Hb had three
wives: (1) Mdrgaret Touteville, whd d. in N. R. ; (2) Joanna
Hooker, daughter of ^evv Thomas,- Who d. 38 April, 1646, and (3)
Margaret Boradile^ whom he m. 8 Sept. 1647. His children were,
Thomas ; Samuel ; John, b. 2 April, 1646 ; and Jeremiah, b. 1646.
THOMASy minister of Charlestown, son of the preceding, was b.
in London, 5 April, 1635, grad. at H. C. 1653, was ordained as col-
league pastor with Revr Z. Symmes, 13 April, 1650, and d. of small
pox, 23 Dee. 1777, in bis 43d year. His wife wj)ts Hannah Tyng,
whom he m. 3 Nov. 1656. THOMAS, minister of Charlestown,
only son of the |)receding, was born 5 July, 1653 ; grad. at H. C.
1676, preached his first Sermfon, 19 May, 1678, succeeded his fa-
ther, 5 May, 1680, and died 8 June, 1685, ». 27, leaving no male
bsue. IIWILLIAM, admitted member of the ar. co. 1642.
SHEPLEY, JOHN, Salem 1637. Ether Shej^ey, of Saco, Me.,
district attorney U. S. court, grad. at D. C. in 1811.
SHERBURNE, ♦HENRY, born a. 1612, and settled at Ports-
mouth as early as 1631, was probably the representative of Ports-
mouth at the general court of Mass. in 1660, and the ancestor of
many families in the eastern part of N. H. Henry Sherburne, born
a. 1674, was appointed a provincial counsellor of N. I]., and d. 29
Dec. 1757. Samuel Sherburne, a merchant of Portsmouth, grad.
at H. C. 1719. Henry Sherburne, who grad. at H. C. 1728, was
appointed a counsellor of N. H. in 1766, was speaker of the house
of representatives, and d. 30 March, 1767, ee. 58. Joseph and John
Sherburne were also mandamus counsellors in 1733 and 1734.
JOHN, Portsmouth 1653, was probably a son of the preceding.
WILLIAM, Portsmouth 1644. Coffin.
SHERLOCK, |:JAMES, New-Hampshire, was a mandamus
counsellor in 1684, perhaps the sheriff of Sir Edmund Andros 1688.
SHERMAN, BEZALEEL, a graduate of H. C. in 1661, d. be-
fore the year 1698. Mather, ii. Magiialia, 24. EDMUND, Massa-
chusetts, admitted freeman in 1636. JAMES , the second minister
of Sudbury, began to preach there in 1677, and in July, 1705, was
'* deposed from hie pastoral office." He died 1718. 1 Coll. Mass.
Hist. Soc. X. 87. JOHN, the third minister of Watertown, was b.
in Dedham, Essex, England, 26 Dec. 1613, came to N. E., Mather
says, in 1634 ; Dr. Eliot says 1635, and settled at Watertown, from
whence he went to New-Haven colony, and sustained some civil
office, although it is believed not that of a magistrate, as stated by
Mather. He returned to Watertown, and succeded Phillips and
Knowles, and d. 8 Aug. 1685, in his 72d year. By his first wife he
had 6 children ; by his second, Mary, (who d. 9 March, 1710) who»
according to Mather, was a daughter of Mr. Launce, and grand-
daughter of Thomas Darcy, the Earl of Rivers, he had 20 children.
See Magnalia. ♦JOHN, Watertown, freeman 1637, a captain, town
elerk, and r^resentative 1651, 1653, and 1663, whose wife Martha
died 7 Feb. 1701, had children, John, born 2 Nov. 1638 ; Martha ;
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SHERMAN. SHUTE.
Mary; Sarah; Elizabeth; Joseph, born 14 May, 1650; Grace;
Grace, 2d, and perhaps others. L. Shattuck, MS letter. PHILIP,
Massachusetts, was admitted freeman in 1634. RICHARD, Bos-
ton 1635, was a merchant, and d. 30 May, 1660. SAMUEL, Bo^
ton 1637, had sons, Philip, b. in 1637, and Nathaniel, b. in 1642,
who was probably of Lynn 1697. He was admitted freeman 1640,
and may have removed to Connecticut, where Samuel Sherman was
a magistrate from 1662 to 1664, and again in 1665, after the union
of New-Haven with Connecticut. THOMAS, Ipswich 1636.
SHERRIT, HUGH, Ipswich, freeman 1635, d. at Haverhill, 5
Sept. 1678, aged a. 100. His name appears as witness to a deed in
2 Coll. Ma,ss. Hist. Soc. iv. 170.
SHIPPEN, IIEDWARD, member of the ar. co. 1669.
SHORE, SAMSON, a Uilor, and member of the Boston church
1641.
SHORT, ABRAHAM, Pemaquid. (See Shurd.) ANTHO-
NY, one of the grantees of Newbury, 1634, d. 4 April, 1671. Coffin.
* HENRY, Ipswich, freeman 1634, was elected representative in
March 1635, but did not hold his seat. He removed to Newbury,
which he represented in March, 1644. Elizabeth, his wife, d. 22
March, 1647. He m. Sarah Glover, 9 Oct. 1648, and died 5 May,
1673, leaving Henry and Sarah, his children. Ibid. Henry d. 2S
Oct. 1706.
SHOTTON, SAMSON, one of the purchasers of land with Gor-
ton, in 1643. Winthrop, ii. Hist. 121.
SHOVE, GEORGE, minister of Taunton, was ordained 19
Nov, 1665, according to Dr. Harris, who, in his Hist, of Dorchester,
calls him Shore. He m. Hopestill Newman, 12 July, 1664, and
had sons, Nathaniel, who d. 20 April, 1693 ; Samuel ; Seth. He
m. again in 1674, to Mrs. Walley, and d. 21 April, 1687. Mrs. Mar-
garet Shove was of Rowley 1643. SETH, minister of Danbury,
Conn., son of the pieceding, grad. at H. C. 1687, ord. 13 Oct. 1697,
d. 3 Dec. 1735, ae. about 68.
SHRIMPTON, HENRY, a brazier, was son of Edward Shrimp-
ton, of Bednall-Green, near London ; was admitted to the church
in Boston, 1639. He had sons, Samuel, b. 1643 ; Henry b. 1653,
and Jonathan, b. 1656. j:|{SAMUEL, Boston, son of the preceding,
was b. 1643, was member of the ar. co. 1670 ; its captain 1694,
freeman 1673, one of Sir Edmund Andros' council 1687, (Hie of
the council of safety 1689, and colonel of the Suffolk regiment.
He d. 5 Feb. 1698, se. 55. His son Samuel was member of the ar.
CO. 1695.
SHURD, ABRAHAM, Pemaquid 1640. Savage, i. Winth. Hist.
N. E. 61, 79.
SHURTLEFF, WILLIAM, Marshfield, was killed by lightning
in June, 1666. Rev. William Shurtleff, H. C. 1707, was born at
Plymouth, 4 April, 1689, was minister of New-Castle and Ports-
mouth, and d. May, 1747, ae. 58. S. Davis, esq.
SHUTE, JAMES, Ipswich. (See Chute.) Three of the name
of Daniel Shute, grad. at H. C. in 1743, 1775, and 1812. RICH-
ARD, Boston, d. 2 October, 1703, ae. 72.
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SHUTSai. SLAWSON.
SHUTER, PETER, Braintree, d. 15 July, 1654. Spelled also
Shooter,
SIBLEY, JOHN, Salem, admitted freeman 1634. Three of the
name of Sibley have grad. at Brown, and one at Harvard. JOHN,
Massachusetts, freeman 1635.
SIELEY, ROBERT, Watertown. (See Seeley.)
SILL, JOHN, Cambridge, freeman 1638, d. before 1658. His
wife was Joanna ; his children, Joseph and Elizabeth, were born in
England. Joseph lived in Cambridge and had several children, and
might be the Captain Joseph Sill who was a conspicuous officer in
Philip^s War.
SILLIS, RICHARD, Scituate .1638. 2 Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc.
iv. 239. His daughter Esther, m. Samuel Jackson in 1639.
SILSBEE, HENRY, Lynn 1658, had sons, Henry, John, and
Samuel. Lewis.
SILVER, THOMAS, Ipswich 1637, removed to Newbury, and
d. 6 Sept. 1682.
SILVESTER, RICHARD, Weymouth. (See Sylvester.)
SIMMONS, MOSES, Plymouth 1623, Duxbury a. 1640. For-
merly written Simonson. THOMAS, Scituate 1646.
SIMPKINS, IINICHOLAS, a captain, was member of ar. co.
1650. Rev. John Simpkins grad. at H. C. in 1784.
SIMPSON, JOHN, Watertown, whose son John was born 1638.
This name prevails in Mass., N. H., and N. J.
SINGLET ARY, RICHARD, Salem 1637, Newbury 1638, re-
moved to Haverhill, and d. 25 Oct. 1687, se. 102. Nathaniel Sin-
gletary was killed at Haverhill by the Indians 13 Aug. 1689, and
Richard Singletary was killed at Lancaster in 1707.
SISTER, GIDEON, Massachusetts, freeman 1643. Savage, ii.
Winthrop, 373.
SKATE, JOHN, Weymouth 1658. The name of Scates exists
in New-Hampshire.
8KELTON, SAMUEL, one of the first ministers of Salem,
came from Lincolnshire, and arrived in N. E. 29 June, 1629, and
was ordained with Rev. Francis Higginson, teacher of the church,
6 August, 1629 ; d. 2 August, 1634, leaving several children. His
wife d. 15 March, 1631. BENJAMIN, of Salem, had a son John,
baptized in 1639; and NATHANIEL, of Salem, had a son John,
b. 1648. The name exists in Mass., N. H., and Vermont.
SKERRY, HENRY, Salem, freeman 1637, was born a. 1605,
and was living 1675. FRANCIS, Salem, freeman 1637, was born
in 1608, and died a. 1692. Land which he bought of Peter Palfi-ey
is still occupied by his descendants.
SKIDMORE, THOMAS,. Cambridge 1643, where his son Jo-
s^h was born ; of Lancaster in 1653. There was a Thomas Skid-
roore of Huntington, L. I., 1672.
SKINNER, THOMAS, Maiden 1653— a name common in N.
E., and which has furnished 14 graduates at the different colleges.
SKIPP, JAMES, Lynn 1637, removed to Sandwich. Lewis.
SLAWSON, GEORGE, Lynn 1637, removed to Sandwich. Lewis.
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SLEEPER. SMITH.
SLEEPER, THOMAS, Hampton 1646. Descendants are in
New-Hampshire.
SMALL, FRANCIS, Casco-Bay 1668; Portsmouth 1685, at the
age of 65. Adams, Annals, 396. EDWARD, Kittery 1640.
SMALLEY, JOHN, Plymouth ; thence to Eastham 1644. Rev.
John Smalley, D. D., grad. at Yale in 1756.
SMALLIDGE, WILLIAM, Boston 1653.
SMART, JOHN, Hingham 1635, Exeter 1647, in the vicinity
of which, and in other parts of N. H., the name exists.
SMEAD, WILLIAM, Dorchester 1658. One of this name was
freeman in 1680.
SMEDLEY, BAPTIST, Concord 1639, freeman 1644, died 16
Aug. 1675, 88. 68. His children were, Samuel, b. 1646, killed by
Indians at Brookfield, 2 Aug. 1675 ; Mary ; James. Shattuck,
MS Hist. Concord. *JOHN, Concord, brother of the preceding,
freeman 1644, representative 1667 and 1670. His son John, free-
man in 1677, m. Sarah Wheeler 1669.
SMITH, ARTHUR, Cpnnecticut 1636. This name is the most
frequent of any in N. E., and perhaps in the United States. It had
furnished 214 graduates at the different colleges in N. E. and N. J.
in 1825, one fourth of whom have been settled clergymen. || BEN-
JAMIN, freeman 1641, member of the ar. co. 1643, was probably
of Lynn, and born a. 1612. Coffin. j:BENJAMIN, was an assistant
of R. I. in 1672. CHRISTOPHER, freeman 1643, was probably
the settler at Northampton in 1658. DANIEL, Watertown, whose
son Daniel was b. in 1642, d. 14 July, 1660. fDANIEL, Plymouth,
assistant, and one of Sir Edmund Andros' council in 1687. Hutch-
inson, i. Mass. 317. EDWARD, Weymouth 1642. FRANCIS,
Roxbury, freeman 1631, came to N. E. 1630, and probably from
Buxall. Winthrop, i. Hist. N. E. 379. FRANCIS, Hingham
1635, freeman 1637, removed to Taunton. Lincoln, Hist. Hing-
ham. FRANCIS, Boston, freeman 1640, had sons, John and Jo-
seph, b. in 1644 and 1646. He may have been the Francis Smith
of Reading in 1647. GEORGE, Dover 1645, was town clerk, and
a prominent man in that place. GEORGE, Ipswich 1648. *HEN-
RY, Hingham, admitted freeman 1638, was representative in 1641.
HENRY, minister of Weathersfield, Conn., died in 1641, or, ac-
cording to Mr. Savage [ii. Winth. N. E. 390], in 1648. HENRY,
Dedham 1639, had sons, Daniel, Samuel, Joseph, and John, born
from 1639 to 1644. •HENRY, Springfield, a captain, and one of
the first settlers, was represensative in 1651. He married Anna,
daughter of William Pynchon, and had children, Mary, Elizabeth,
Rebecca, Elisha, and Martha. He returned to England, with his
father-in-law and Rev. George Moxon, in 1652. Breck, Century
Discourse. HUGH, Rowley, admitted freeman 1642, died 1656.
JAMES, Salem 1637; Marblehead 1648, died a. 1661, leaving a
widow Mary and son James. JAMES, Weymouth, whose son Na-
thaniel was b. 1639. JAMES, Boston, a ship-master, was member
of the. church 1644. Winthrop [i. Hist. N. E. 243, 379] notices a
Capt. James Smith. JAMES, admitted freeman 1654. JOHN,
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Dedham, d. 14 Aug. 1645. Of the name of John Smith or Smythe,
admitted freemen by the Massachusetts colony before 1660, there
are six, viz : one in 1633, two in 1636, one in 1639, one in 1647,
and one in 1654. It would therefore be difficult to assign to each
his respective residence. JOHN, Plymouth 1643, was one of the
early settlers of Eastham. JOHN, Weymouth, 1638. Savage, i.
Winth. Hist. N. E. 289. JOHN, Salem 1635, went to Rhode-
Island with Roger Williams, and was president of the colony 1649.
Ibid, ii. 262. Rev. Dr. Harris. Two others of the name of John
Smith were early proprietors of Providence. JOHN, Boston, a
tailor,, admitted member of the church 1638, and perhaps the mem-
ber of the ar. co. 1644. ♦JOHN, Lynn 1638 ; Reading 1647, rep-
resentative 1669. Lewis. JOHN, Watertown 1639, whose wife
d. in 1639, probably was the one who removed to Lancaster, and d.
July, 1669. Willard, Hist. Lancaster. JOHN, Boston, came from
Ireland, and was admitted to the church in 1640. JOHN, Sudbu-
ry 1646. JOHN, Saco, freeman 1653. Folsom. JOHN, Charles-
town, a ship-carpenter, d. 26 March, 1673. J*JOHN, Hingham,
probably freeman 1654, was representative from 1683 to 1686; elect-
ed assistant in 1686 ; d. in May, 1695. His son John was b. 1653.
JOHN, Rowley 1643, died 1661, leaving one daughter, Sarah.
JOHN, Dorchester, whose son Samuel was b. 1659. A John Smith
was of Hadley in 1665. JOHN, Salem 1660. Hutchinson, i. Hist.
Mass. 187. JOSEPH, Hampton, had a son John, b. 9 Jan. 1669,
who m. 1694, Susanna Chesley, and had sons, John, born 1695, of
Durham ; Joseph, b. 1701, a colonel, who d. 29 March, 1781, aged
80 ; Samuel ; Benjamin ; Ebenezer ; and Winthrop. ||LA W-
RENCE, Dorchester, freeman 1643, member of the ar. co. 1642.
MATTHIAS, Massachusetts, freeman 1645. MATTHEW, Wa-
tertown, was drowned at Noddle's Island, 21 May, 1658. MIG-
HILL, Charlestown, freeman 1647, had a son Samuel, b. in 1648.
NATHANIEL, freeman 1668. NEHEMIAH, Exeter, d. in 1673.
OBADIAH, Dorchester 1661. *PHILIP, Hadley 1660, represen-
tative 1677, 1680 to 1684, 6 years, was a deacon of the church, se-
lectman, and lieutenant of the troop. He d. in the winter of 1684.
Mather says he was '* murdered with an hideous witchcraft.*' See
ii. Magnalia, 394, 395. RALPHy minister of Plymouth, and a
preacher at several places, came to N, E. with Rev. Francis Hig-
ginson, in 1629. He died at Boston, 1 March, 1661-2. RALPH,
came to this country in 1633, from Hingham, England, and settled
at Hingham, Mass., as early as 1635. Lincoln. RICHARD,
Rhode-Island, purchased, in 1641, of the sachems, a tract of land
in the Narraganset country. His son Richard purchased Hog-
Island in 1658. RICHARD, Sudbury 1646. ROBERT, Exeter
1638, where are now living several families of the name of Smith,
some of whom may be his descendants : but the late chief-justice
and governour, the Hon. Jeremiah Smith, LL. D., of that town, is
descended from the late William Smith, esquire, of Peterborough,
who was of Scotch ancestry. ROBERT, Ipswich 1648. ROW-
LAND, Marblehead 1648. SAMUEL, Salem or Lynn, freeman
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1634, d. 1642. Lewis. ♦SAMUEL, Hadley, was bom a. 1598,
and was representative 1661, six years. He was living in 1678.
♦THOMAS, Weymouth, freeman 1633, representative 1635.
THOMAS, Salem 1637, perhaps of Lynn 1649. THOMAS, Wa-
tertown, freeman 1637, had sons, James, b. 1637 ; John, 1639 ;
Thomas, b. 1640, perhaps the child whose remarkable preservation
is recorded in ii. Winthrop, 267 ; Joseph, b. 1643. THOMAS,
Ipswich and Newbury 163S, had sons, John; James, who was
drowned at Cape Breton, 1690 ; and Matthias ; and a number of
daughters. He^d. 26 April, 1666. * WILLIAM, Weymouth, free-
man 1635, representative 1636 and 1637, had a son Nehemiah, b.
in 1641, perhaps settled in Exeter. WILLIAM, Charlestown, pro-
bably the one admitted freeman 1644. Son Nathaniel, b. 1640.
SNAWSELL, IITHOMAS, Boston 1665, was a member of the
ar. CO.
SNELL, THOMAS, Bridgewater in 1682. Eight of the name
of Snell had grad. in N. E. in 1825.
SNELLING, JOHN, Boston 1657. JOHN, Saco, freeman 1653.
Folsom. THOMAS, from Dartmouth, d. 16 Oct. 1661. Coffin.
WILLIAM, Newbury, a physician, son of Thomas Snelling, esq.,
of Chaddlewood, in Devonshire, m. Margaret, daughter of Giles
Stagge, 5 July 1648. He removed to Boston, before 1655, and d.
there, leaving two children.
SNOW, NICHOLAS, Plymouth 1623, removed to Eastham, a.
1644. RICHARD, Woburn 1653. 3 Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. i, 45.
THOMAS, Boston, freeman 1642. WILLIAM, Bridgewater, 1682,
had sons, William and Joseph.
SOMERBY, ANTHONY, Newbury, son of Richard, and grand-
son of Henry Somerby, came from Little-Bythum, in Lincolnshire,
in 1639, in the ship Jonathan, and was admitted freeman 1642. He
was the first schoolmaster in Newbury, and the town clerk 38 years
from 1648. He died July " the last," 1686. HENRY, Newbury,
brother of the preceding, came with him to N. E. in 1639, and was
admitted freeman 1642, and d. 2 Oct. 1652. His children were,
Sarah, b. 1644 ; John, b. 24 Dec. 1648 ; Elizabeth, b. 1646; Dan-
iel, b. 18 Nov. 1650.
SOMES, MORRIS, Gloucester 1664. Gibbs.
SOULE, GEORGE, Plymouth 1620, one of the first pilgrims,
removed, as early as 1644, to Duxbury, where the name still exists.
SOUTHARD, JOSEPH, Massachusetts, freeman 1683. This
name exists in N. H. and in Massachusetts.
SOUTHCOT, RICHARD, appears among those desiring to be
made freemen, 18 Oct. 1630. THOMAS, one of the patentees of
Massachusetts, was admitted freeman 1631. [Prince i. Annals, 180.
ii. 32.] Mr. Savage [i. Winth. Hist. N. E. 57] says, '' he probably
never came over ;" but this was conjectured before he had prepared
the list of freemen for his ii. volume, in which the name of Thomas
Southcot appears among those desiring ^* to be made freemen," 19
Oct. 1630. He was admitted the 18 May, following, and probably
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90UTHGATE. SPARHAWK.
soon returned to England, or lefl the colony, as he had this liberty
granted in July, 1631.
SOUTHGATE, RICHARD, was b. in Coombs, in Suffolk, Eng.
in 1673, came to N. E. in 1715, returned and brought over his fam-
ily in 1717, and settled at Leicester, and died in 1758, s. 88. He
had sons, Stuart and Richard. Worcester Mag. i. 100.
SOUTHMAYD, WILLIAM, Middletown, Conn., 1665, died
1702, SB. 57, leaving 8 sons, William, b. 1674 ; John, b. 1676, grad.
at H. C. 1697, was ordained the minister of Waterbury, Conn., and
d. 1755; William, b. 1679; Giles, 1680, died 1738; Allen, 1685;
Daniel, 1687 ; and Joseph, b. 1695, d. 1772. William, son of Rev.
John, grad. at Y. C. in 1761, and died in 1777. Rev. Daniel S.
Southmayd, MS note to Mr. Shattuck.
SOUTHWICK, LAWRENCE, Salem, member of the church
1639, from which he was excommunicated on account of joining
the quakers. His wife was Cassandra, and his sons were, John,
Josiah, Daniel, and Provided. He and his wife were sent to the
east end of Long-Island, where they died about 1660, within three
days of each other. Felt, Annals Salem, 196 — ^203.
SOUTHWORTH, JCONSTANT,, Plymouth, an assistant, was
admitted freeman of that colony 1637, died 1678, leaving 3 sons,
Edward, Nathaniel, and William. Descendants are in Mass. and
N. H. JTHOMAS, Plymouth, brother of the preceding, was elect-
ed an assistant of Plymouth colony in 1652, and 10 years afterwards,
until 1667 ; was a captain, and a worthy character. He died 1669,
e. 53. His wife was Elizabeth, daughter of Rev. John Rayner, and
their only child m. Lieut. John Howland.
SOWTHER, NATHANIEL, Plymouth, was clerk of the court
1643. This name is distinct from Southworth. [2 Coll. Mass. Hist.
Soc. iii. 184.] There was a Nathaniel Souther admitted freeman
by Mass. in 1653, who may be the preceding, and the one mention-
ed by Lincoln as of Hingham in 1653, and then 62 years of age.
SPARHAWK, JOHN, was of Cambridge, and, from an inter-
leaved almanack, it appears that he d. 21 Sept. 1644. *NA-
THANIEL, a deacon of Cambridge, was admitted freeman in 1639,
was elected representative from 1642 to 1647, six years, one of
which, it appears, was for Wenham. He d. 28 June, 1647. Mary,
his wife, d. 25 Jan. 1644, and Catherine, a 2d wife, survived him
but 7 days. His children were, Anna, who m. Dea. John Cooper ;
Mary ; Esther ; Samuel, who d. 1639 ; Elizabeth, who died 1692 ;
Nathaniel, of Cambridge, who m. 31 Oct. 1649, Patience, daughter
of Rev. Samuel Newman, and had, 1. Mary ; 2. Sybil; 3. Esther ;
4. Samuel, who m. a Whiting, and d. 1719, se. 49, leaving, John,
who grad. at H. C. 1723, and was a merchant in Plymouth ; 5. Na-
thaniel, b. 1664, a deacon of Cambridge, who d. 1734, sb. 69, whose
son Nathaniel, H. C. 1715, was minister of Lynnfield, Mass., and d.
1732, s. 38, and father of Edward P. Sparhawk, H. C. 1753, and
John Sparhawk, a physician of Philadelphia ; 6. John, minister of
Bristol, who grad. at H. C. 1689, d. 1718, s. 46, leaving two sons,
1, John, minister of Salem, who was b. in Aug. or Sept. 1718, grad.
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SPARHAWK. SPENCER,
at H. C. 1731, ordained 1736, died 30 April, 1755, ». 42; and 2.
Nathaniel, of Kittery, born 4 March, 1715, a judge and counsellor,
who m. Elizabeth, daughter of Sir William PepperelJ, and three of
whose sons grad. at H. C, viz : Nathaniel, in 1665 ; William, who
took the name and title of Sir William Pepperell, 1766 ; and Sam-
uel, in 1771. Rev. John, of Salem, m. a Porter, and had 13 chil-
dren. Three of the sons who lived to mature age, were, 1. Nathan-
iel ; 2. John, of Portsmouth, N. H., speaker of the house of repre-
sentatives, who d. 5 September, 1787, ». 45, the father of Samuel
Sparhawk, esq., of Concord, N. H., late secretary of state ; 3. Sam-
uel, a merchant.
SPARKS, JOHN, Ipswich 1665 [2 Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. viii.
107], perhaps previously of Saco. The name of Sparks was also in
Rowley soon after this period. Rev. Jared Sparks, distinguished
for his historical researches in this country and in Europe, grad. at
H> C. 1815, and was sometime minister of Baltimore.
SPAULDING, EDWARD, Braintree, where Margaret, his wife,
d. in Aug. 1640. He removed to Chelmsford, having been admitted
freeman in 1640, and there d. 26 Feb. 1670. His sons were, Ed-
ward, Benjamin, b. at Braintree, 7 April, 1643; Andrew, b. 19
Nov. 1653, a deacon of the church in Chelmsford, and died 5 May,
1713 ; and perhaps some others. His descendants are numerous
in several parts of N. E. and some have been distinguished. Rev.
Samson Spaulding, H. C. 1732, was the minister of Tewksbury,
Mass., almbst 60 years, and died 15 Dec. 1796. Asa Spalding, of
Connecticut, grad. at Y. C. 1752, and perhaps was the father of Asa
Spalding, an eminent lawyer of Norwich, in that state, who grad. at
Y. C. 1778, and d. in Aug. 1811, ae. 54. Lyman Spalding, ^. D.,
of Portsmouth and New- York, who d. 30 Oct. 1821, sb. 46, Matthi-
as Spalding, M. D., of Amherst, born at Chelmsford, 25 June, 1769,
a graduate of H. C. 1798 ; Noah, M. B., at D. C. 1800 ; James, M.
D., 1814; Phineas, M. D., 1823, and Jason C, M. D, 1828, are
probably descendants from him. Joseph Spaulding, a soldier of the
revolution, who d. at Chelmsford in 1820, s. 64, fired the first gun
in the battle of Bunker Hill, and was supposed to be the one who
killed Major Pitcairn, as he always asserted that he took aim at him.
♦EDWARD, Chelmsford, son of the preceding, was representative
in 1691.
SPEAR, GEORGE, Dorchester and Braintree, was admitted
freeman in 1644. He had children, George ; Sarah, born 1647 ;
Samuel, b. 18 Oct. 1651 ; and Hannah, born 1653. Rev. Samuel
Spear, of Province-town, Mass., who grad, at H. C. 1715, was a de-
scendant, as are the several families in and around Boston.
SPENCER, GARRETT, Cambridge 1634, Lynn 1637, admit-
ted freeman 1637. ♦JOHN, Ipswich and Newbury, freeman 1634,
represented Ipswich 1635, Newbury 1636, returned to England
1638, and d. 1648. Coffin. MICHAEL, Cambridge 1634, Lynn
1637. Lewis. ROGER, Saco 1653. THOMAS, Cambridge
1632, brother of John Spencer, was admitted freeman in 1634.
THOMAS^ Concord 1666, was probably the freeman 1681. THO-
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SPENCER. STACY.
MAS, Pascataqua 1631, Kittery 1652. *WILLIAM, Cambridge
1632, fieeman 1633, representative 1635, and one of the founders
of the ar. co. 1637.
SPERRY, , Connecticut 1661. Hutch, i. Hist. Mass. 199.
SPOFFORD, JOHN, sen., Rowley 1643, died 22 April, 1696.
This name is often spelled Spafford,
SPOOER, JOHN, Boston, freeman 1639, had a son John, born
in 1650. Snow [Hist. Boston] spells this name Spore. JOHN,
Marlborough, freeman 1653.
SPOONER, THOMAS, Salem, admitted freeman 1638. Six of
the name had grad. at the N. E. colleges in 1828.
SPRAGUE, FRANCIS, Plymouth 1623 [Davis, Morton's Memo.
879] ; of Duxbury afterwards. The Sprague genealogy, published
by Hosea Sprague, 1828, says he had no sons. JOHN, Plymouth,
one of Sir Edmund Andros' council 1687. Hutchinson, i. Hist.
Mass. 317. ♦JOHN, Maiden, freeman 1653, a captain, and repre-
sentative at the Nov. session 1689, 1690, and 1691 . *PHINEH AS,
Maiden, representative Dec. session, 1689, and February and May,
1690. ||*RALPH, arrived at Salem 1628, and settled at Charles-
town 1629, freeman 1631, representative 1635, 9 years, member of
ar. CO. 1638, was the first constable of Charlestown, 1630, and a
military officer. ||*RICHARD, Charlestown, brother of the pre-
ceding came to N. E. 1628, freeman 1631, member of the ar. co.
1638, its lieutenant 1665, captain of the Charlestown militia, repre-
sentative 1644, 1659, to 1666, 9 years. He died 25 Nov. 1668.
♦RICHARD, Charlestown, probably son of the preceding, was rep-
resentative from 1681 to 1686 (excepting 1684), and 1689, 7 years.
WILLIAM, arrived at Salem with his brothers, Ralph and Richard,
in 1628, and with Governour Endecott's consent, went with them
to Mishawum [Charlestown] in 1629. He went to Hingham, about
1635 ; had sons, Anthony, b. before 1636 ; John, b. 1638 ; Samuel,
b. 1640; Jonathan, b. 1643, d. 1647; Jonathan, 2d, b. 1648, set-
tled in Rhode-Island ; William, b. 1650, and went to Bridge water.
His daughters were, Elizabeth Persis, Mary, and Hannah. The
genealogy of this branch of the Sprague family, to the fourth gene-
ration, may be found in a pamphlet of 48 pages, published in 1828,
by Hosea Sprague, of Hingham.
SPRING, HENRY, Massachusetts, was admitted freeman 1660.
Descendants are in Mass. Six of the name had grad. at Harv. and
Yale in 1828.
SPUR, JOHN, Boston, whose son Ebenezer was b. 1642. (See
Spoobr^ ROBERT, Dorchester 1658, freeman 1666.
SaUIRE, GEORGE, Concord 1643. JOHN, one of the early
town clerks of Reading. ||THOMAS, freeman 1634, member of
the ar. co. 1646.
STACKHOUSE, RICHARD, Salem 1638, Beverly 1659. Felt,
Annals Salem, 188.
STACY, HENRY, Marblehcad 1648. HUGH, Dedham 1640 ;
Lynn, freeman 1643, was, with his wife, received member of the
church at Salem in 1659. JOHN, Lynn 1641, Marblehead 1648.
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STACY. STAR.
*SIMON, Ipswich, freeman 1668, a captain, and representatiTe
1685, 1686, 1689, and 1690, d. 27 Oct. 1699. THOMAS, who
was of Ipswich in 1648.
STAINWOOD, PHILIP, Gloucester 1664.
ST ANBURY, JOSIAH, Lynn 1639. Lewis. THOMAS, Bos-
ton, d. 27 Sept. 1652. His sons were, Thomas, b. 1642 ; J<^m, b.
1645 ; and Nathan, b. 1646.
STANDISH, JAMES, Salem, admitted member of the church,
23 June, 1639, freeman 1640, had 20 acres of land granted to him
in 1636. His name is given Standige by Mr. Savage in his list of
freemen, in ii. Winth. Hist. N. £. 370. |MYLES, the brave cap*
tain of the Plymouth pilgrims 1620, and their defender from the
hostile movements of the Indians, d. at Duxbury, in 1656. He was
elected assistant of the colony 19 years, and at the head of the mO«
itary forces. His will, made 7 March, 1655 [Coll. N. H. Hist. See.
i. 259 — ^261], names 4 sons, Alexander, Myles, Josiah, and Charles.
Myles removed to Boston, and was living there in 1662. Alexander
and Josiah (who m. a daughter of John Alden) were several times
representatives from Duxbury.
STANHOPE, JONATHAN, Sudbury 1664, was born a. 1632,
and d. 25 Oct. 1702, se. 70. He is mentioned in the Revo, in N.
E. Justified, 31, 32.
STANDLAKE, DANIEL, ScUuate 1636, died in 1638. 2 Coil-
Mass. Hist. Soc. iv.
STANIFORTH, THOMAS, Concord 1644. Shattuck. Three
of the name of Daniel Stanilbrd grad. at H. C. in 1738, 1772, and
1790.
STANLEY, CHRISTOPHER, Boston, a captain, and by occu-
pation a tailor, was admitted freeman 1641. Snow, Hist. Boston,
119. Nine of the name had grad. at Y. C. in 1828. MATTHEW,
Lynn 1646. Lewis. ||*THOMAS, Lynn, freeman and represent-
ative in 1635, and member of the ar. co. 1640. TIMOTHY, Cam-
bridge, admitted freeman 1635.
STANTON, ROBERT, Dorchester 1659. Rev. Robert Stan-
ton grad. at H. C. 1712. THOMAS, was an interpreter in the
Pequot war, 1637. He had a son Robert, who, with his fether, is
noticed in a postscript to Hubbard's Indian Wars, p. 6.
STANYAN, ♦ANTHONY, Boston 1641 ; Exeter, where he
was town clerk in 1647 ; of Hampton, which he represented in 1654,
had a son John, b. in Boston 1642, who settled in Hampton. De-
scendants still remain in N. Hampshire.
STAPLES, ABRAHAM, Dorchester 1658. ABNER, Mendon,
freeman 1673. EDWARD, and SAMUEL, Braintree, at an early
period. JOHN, Weymouth, fireman 1648, had sons Increase and
Joseph, b. about 164L
STAR, COMFORT, Cambridge, was a physician at Ashford in
Kent, came to N. E. as early as 1^34, settled in Cambridge, remov-
ed to Duxbury ; thence to Boston, where he d. 2 Jan. 1&9 or 60.
COMFORT, son of the preceding, was bom at Ashlbrd, in
Kent, a. 1624, grad. 1647, at H. C, in the catalogue of which, his
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STAR. STEDMAN.
name is put Consolantius ; returned to England, and settled, at
Carlisle, in Cumberland, from whence he was ejected ; was after-
wards pastor of a church in Lewes, Sussex, where he d. in Oct. 171 1,
s. 86.' Calamy. JOHN, one of the proprietors of Bridgewater
1645. THOMAS, Yarmouth 1640, is styled a chirurgeon, and
was living there in 1670. Thacher, i. Med. Biog. 18.
STARBUCK, ♦EDWARD, an elder of the church at Dover,
was representative in 1643 and 1646. He came from Derbyshire.
His wife was Eunice Reynolds, from Wales. Coffin.
STARK, WILLIAM, Lynn 1641. Lewis. Eight of the name
of Stark had received the honours of the colleges of N. E. and N. J.
in 1828. The late General John Stark, who d. 8 May, 1822, was
of Scotch ancestry, and was b. at Londonderry, N. H., 17 Aug. 1728.
STARKWEATHER, ROBERT, Roxbury 1643. This name
exists in Mass. and Conn., where several have been publickly edu-
cated.
STEARNS, CHARLES, Watertown, freeman 1646, was proba-
bly the same who m. Rebecca Gibson, of Cambridge in 1654.
Eighteen of the name had grad. at Harv. and Yale in 1828. ISAAC,
Watertown 1630, probably the great ancestor of the Stearnses in
Massachusetts, was admitted freeman 18 May, 1631. The name
is written Sterne and Starne in the earliest records. He d. 29 Aug.
1676. He had sons, Isaac, b. 6 Jan. 1632, freeman 1665 ; Samuel,
b. 24 April, 1638, and very probably others, who were b. before he
came to N. E. JOHN, one of the first settlers of .Billerica, d. 5
March, 1669. His 1st wife was Mary Lathrop, of Plymouth colony.
John, his eldest son, by the 2d wife, and the first child born in Bil-
lerica on record, was b. the 2d week in May, 1654, was a man of
influence in his native town, and d. 26 Oct. 1728, s. 74. From
him descended Hon. Isaac Stearns, Rev. Josiah Stearns, of Ep-
ping, N. H., whose son Rev. Samuel Stearns is minister of Bedford,
Mass. ^NATHANIEL, Dedham, a lieutenant, and representative
in 1684.
STEBBINS, EDMUND, Cambridge, freeman 1634, removed to
Connecticut as early as 1636. See I. Mather's Relation of Trou-
bles in N. E. with the Indians, 43. JOHN, Roxbury, freeman
1647, d. 4 Dec. 1681, «. 70. His wife d. 1686. JOHN, Water-
town, where his son John was b. 1640, was perhaps the one who
settled at Northampton as early as 1658. MARTIN, Roxbury
1640. ROWLAND, was of Springfield in 1641, as were also In-
crease in 1650, and Benjamin, who d. in 1698. THOMAS, Spring-
field 1641, a lieutenant, d. 25 Sept. 1663.
STEDMAN, ISAAC, Scituate 1648. 2 Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc.
iv. 239. JOHN, Cambridge, freeman 1640, died of the small pox,
24 Nov. 1678. Alice, his wife d. 6 March, 1691, s. 80. His
daughters were Elizabeth, Sarah, and Martha. ROBERT, Cam-
bridge^ freeman 1638, d. 20 Jan. 1667. He had two sons, John, b.
27 Dec. 1642, and Thomas, who d. 2 April, 1659. From John
descended John Stedman, H. C. 1712, who d. 5 Sept. 1719.
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STEELE. • STICKNfiY.
STEELE, GEORGE, Cambridge 1632, was admitted freeman
1634. Nineteen of the name of Steele had been educated at the
N. E. colleges in 1828, ten of whom grad. at Yale. HENRY,
Cambridge 1632. t*JOHN, Dorchester 1630, a proprietor of Cam-
bridge 1&2, freeman 1635, representative of Cambridge 1635, re-
moved to Hartford, and was a magistrate or assistant in 1636. Sav*-
age, i. Winthrop, 285.
STEPHENS, JOHN, Hingham 1638. Linc<^.
STEPHENSON, ANDREW, Cambridge, freeman 1643, had
children, Deborah, Sarah, Rebecca, John, b. 1644, Mary, Lydia,
Andrew, and Hannah. JOHN, Boston, had sons, John, b. in 1645,
and James, b. in 1653. MARMADUKE, was tried for being a
Quaker, i. Hutch. 183, was a day-labourer in Skipton, Yorkshire,
when he had a call to go to America. Life of John Richardson, p.
25. THOMAS, Portsmouth, d. 7 Dec. 1663. Margaret, his wife,
d. 26 Nov. same year.
STETSON, ROBERT, Scituate 1636. WILLIAM, Charies-
town. (See Stitson.) Four of the name of Stetson had grad. in
N. E. in 1828.
STEVENS, HENRY, Boston 1637, freeman 1652, d. 5 Oct.
1689. He had sons, John, b. 1637; James, 1640; Joseph, 1642;
Onesesimus, 1643. There was a Henry Stevens of Lynn in 1634.
*JAMES, Gloucester 1664, freeman 1671, representative 1680.
JOHN, Newbury 1639, removed to Salisbury and perhaps the free-
man of 1641, bad sons, John, b. 20 June, 1639, and Timothy, b.
22 Sept. 1641, both at Newbury. - Coffin. JOHN, Andover, 1644,
was probably admitted freeman 1642. He d. in April, 1662, hav-
ing had 5 sons, John, Nathan, said to have been the first child born
in Andover, Joseph, Ephraim, and Benjamin. David, the son of
deacon Joseph, was father of Rev. Joseph Stevens, of Charlestown,
who grad. at H. C. 1703, and d. of small pox in Nov. 1721, whose
son. Rev. Benjamin Stevens, D. D., grad. at H. C. 1740, and was
the minister of Kittery, Me., and d. 18 May, 1791, sb. 71. JOHN,
Guilford 1650. Abbot, Hist. Andover, 21. NICHOLAS, Charles-
town, d. 17 May, 1646. TIMOTHY, a captain and deacon of Rox-
bury, d. 31 Jan. 1708. Rev. Timothy Stevens, H. C. 1687, was
minister of Glastonbury, Conn, and d. 16 April, 1725. THO-
MAS, Guilford 1650. THOMAS, Sudbury 1654, was town clerk
15 years. Shattuck. *WILLI AM, Gloucester, freeman 1640, rep-
tesentative 1644. WILLIAM, Salem, admitted member of the
church 29 Dec. 1639, freeman 1642, removed to Newbury, and d.
19 May, 1653. Sons, John, b. 19 Nov. 1650; Samuel, b. 1652.
STEWART, DUNCAN, one of the early settlers of Newbury,
d. in Rowley, in 1717, ©. 100 years. Coffin. JOHN, Springfield,
a. 1654, d. 21 April, 1690. (See Stijart.) ||RICHARD, mem-
ber of the ar. co. 1652.
STICKNEY, WILLIAM, came from Hull in England, yms ad-
mitted a member of Boston church, from which he was dismissed
to Rowley ; was admitted freeman 1640, and d. in 1664 or 5. His
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&TICKNEY. 8TODDARIX
children were Samuel, who settled in Bradjford^ which he represent-
ed 1689 and 1690 ; John ; Andrew, of Rowley ; Amos, of New-
bury, who d. 1678 ; Mary ; Faith, and Mercy. Descendants are in
Vt., Mass. Maine, and New-Hampshire. William Stickney, esq. a
worthy magistrate of Billerica, who d. 27 August, 1781, se. 76, was
from the Bradford branch of the family.
STILEM AN, ELI AS^ Salem^ a member of the church, came to
N. £. as early as 1629, and was adihitted freeman 1632; chosen
elerk of the court of Essex county 1653, and d. it appears in 1662,
aged not less than 70. The name of his wife was Judith. Felt,
UB letter. Ibid, Annals, 216. *ELIAS, Salem, son of the pre-
ceding, was admitted to the church 18 Aug. 1639, removed to
jPortsmouth, as early as 1659, which he represented in 1667, and 5
years afterwards, ai^d once as late as 1690, was appointed one of
the counsellors under President Cutt 1680, was secretary of N. H,
and captain of the militia. He may be the member of the ar. co.
1645, His wife was Ruth Maynard, whom he m. 10 April, 1667.
His residence was sometime at Great-Island, now New-Castle. He
died in 169$. RICHARD, Cambridge 1643; went to Salem as
early as 1@46, and from thence to Portsmouth. His wife was Han-
nah. His children were, Samuel, b. at Cambridge, 23 May, 1644 ;
Mary, Elizabeth, Sarah, and Richard, born at Portsmouth from
1657 to 1668, the four last by his wife Mary.
STILES, JOHN, came from Milbroke in Bedfordshire, England,
in 1634, and settled in Windsor, Conn, in 1635. His son John
was father of Rev. Isaac Stiles, of North-Haven, Conn, whose son
Rev. Ezra Stiles, D. D., LL. D.,* was the learned president of Yale
College^ and d. 12 May, 1795, ae. 67. Holmes, Life Pres. Stiles.
HENRY, Windsor 1640. ROBERT, Boxford 1673. Nine of
the name have grad. at Yale and one at Harvard.
STIL.WELL, JASPER, Guilford, Conn. 1650.
STIMPSON, or STIMSON, JOHN, freeman 1645. Joseph
and Daniel Stimpson, clergymen, grad. at H. C. in 1720 and 1759.
STIRK, GEORGE, grad. at H. C. 1646, and is said in a MS of
Rev. Andrew Eliot, D. D., to have been an eminent chymist, and
poe who wrote several Latin treatises.
STITSON *||WILLIAMi a deacon of the church in Charles-
town, was admitted freems^n 1633 ; mpmber of the ar. co. 1648,
representative from 1667 to 1671, five years. 3 Coll. Mass. Hist.
Soc. i. 261.
STOCKBRIDGE, JOHN, Scituate 1638 ; [2 Coll. Mass. Hist.
Soc. iv. 2391 perhaps the same who d. at Boston, 13 Oct. 1657.
STOCKER, EBENEZER, Lynn 1674, m. Sarah Marshall, had
sous, Thomas, Ebenezer, Samuel, John, and d. 2 Nov. 1704.
STOCKING, GEORGE, Cambridge, freeman 1635. This name
exists in the county of Berkshire.
STODDARD, *||ANTHONY, Boston 1639, admitted freeman
1640, member of the ar. co. 1639, representative 1650, 1659, 1660,
^d 20 years in succession from 1665 to 1684. By his 1st wife, a
daughter of Emanuel Downing, he had Solomon, b. 1643, Samson,
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STODDARD. STONE.
b. 3 Dec. 1645, d. at Boston, 4 Nov. 1698 ; and probably Simeon;
by his 2d, Barbary, the widow of Capt. Joseph Weld, whom he m.
in 164S, and who d. 15 April, 1655, he had Stephen, b. 6 Jan.
1654 ; by the 3d, Christiana, he had, Anthony b. 16 June, 1656;
Joseph, b. 1 Dec. 1663 ; John, b. and d. in 166- ; Ebenezer, b. 1
July, 1664. Seventeen of the name, and most of them his descend-
ants, had grad. at Harv. and Yale in 1828. SOLOMON, second
minister of Northampton, son of the preceding, was born 4 Oct
1643, grad. at H. C. 1662, was ordained, 11 Sept. 1672, and d. 11
Feb. 1729, e. 85. He married the widow of Rev. Eleazar Mather,
his predecessor. (See Mather.) Esther, his widow, d. 10 Feb.
1736,88.92. Two of his sons were. Rev. Anthony, H. C. 1697,
who was ordained the minister of Woodbury, Conn. 27 May, 1792,
and d. 6 Sept. 1760, s. 82, and Hon. John, b. 11 Feb. 1681, H. C.
1701, a counseller of Massachusetts, who d. at Boston, 19 June,
1748, 8B. 66. IISIMEON, Boston, brother of the preceding, was
member of the ar. co. 1675, and was living in 1729. He was &ther
of the Hon. Anthony Stoddard, H. C. 1697, who was b. 24 Sept.
1678, d. 11 March, 1748, whose son Simeon, H. C. 1726, was a
merchant of Boston ; of David, b. 5 Dec. 1685 ; Jonathan, b. 5 Feb.
1688.
STODDER, JOHN, Hingham 1640, was admitted freeman in
1642. His descendants are probably in Mass., where the name
continues.
STONE, DANIEL, Cambridge, son of deacon Gregory Stone,
was admitted freeman 1643. DAVID, Cambridge, brother of the
preceding, freeman 1647, m. Dorcas, and had children David, Dan-
iel, b. 1646, Dorcas, John, Samuel, and Nathaniel. ^GREGORY,
a dea.. of Cambridge, freeman 1636, representative 1638, one of the
proprietors of Watertown, d. 30 Nov. 1672, ae. 80. His wife was
Lydia, and his children were John ; Daniel ; David ; Elizabeth, who
m. a Potter of Ipswich ; Samuel, who had sons Samuel, Isaac, John,
and several daughters; Sarah, who m. a Meriam, of Concord, and
Lydia, who m. a Fiske, all of whom were members of the church in
1658: JOHN, Roxbury, d. 26 Oct. 1643. JOHN, a captain, was
killed by the Pequot Indians in his bark on Connecticut river in
1634. Hutchinson, i. Hist. Mass. 385. Winthrop, i. Hist. N. £.
iii. 122. 2 Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. x. Index. JOHN, Guilford 1650.
JOHN, Sudbury 1640, son of deacon Gregory Stone, had a son
Daniel, b. in 1644. *JOHN, Cambridge, S'eeman 1665, represen-
tative 1682 and 1683. JOHN, Beverly, 1659, was one of the found-
ers of the church in 1667. He had a son John of Beverly in 1659,
and probably Nathaniel. JOHN, grad. at H. C. 1653, went to En-
gland and was admitted to the degree of Master of Arts in the uni-
versity of Cambridge. He was a classmate with Rev. Samuel Hook-
er, and might be son of the following, who was the c<^eagae of
Mr. Hooker's fiither. SAMUEL^ one of the first ministers of Cam-
bridge and Hartford, was born in Hartford, England, and was edin
cated at Emanuel College, came to N. E. in 1633, and settled at
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Cambridge with Rev. Thonlas Hooker, 11 Oct. 1633, admitted
freeman 1634, removed to Hartford with Mr. Hooker in L636, and
there d. 20 July, 1663. SIMON, a deacon of Watertown, was ad-
mitted freeman 1636, and was probably the representative in 1678
and 1679. His son John was b. in 1635. WILLIAM, Guilford,
Conn. 1658. 1 Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. x. Index. Twenty-seven of
the name had grad. at the N. E. colleges in 1828, twelve of whom
grad. at Harvard.
STORY, ANDREW, Ipswich, was one of the Pequot soldiers.
AUGUSTINE, Massachusetts a. 1638. Savage, i. Winth. N. E.
26,409, 411. GEORGE, Boston, called a young merchant from
London. Winthrop, ii. Hist. N. E. 69. A George Story was of
Maine in 1643. ISAAC, Watertown 1635. Shattuck. WIL-
LIAM, Ipswich 1648. A William Story was admitted freeman
1671.
STOUGHTON, J||*ISRAEL, Dorchester, freeman 1633, repre-
sentative from 1634 to 1636, member of the ar. co. 1637, its captain
in 1642, elected assistant in 1637 and the seven succeeding years.
He returned to England, was a lieutenant-colonel to Rainsbo-
row, and d. in the time of the civil wars, at Lincoln, in England.
Whitman [Hist. Sketch, of Ar. Co. 14, 147] erroneously calls him
EzekieL Winthrop, ii. Hist. N. E. 245. THOMAS, Dorchester,
admitted freeman 1631, removed to Connecticut in 1635 or 1636.
John Stoughton grad. at Y. C. in 1755. f J WILLI AM, lieutenant
govemour of Massachusetts, was son of the Hon. Israel Stoughton,
and grad. at H. C. 1650 ; went to England, and had a fellowship at
New College, Oxford, was a preacher in the county of Sussex, and
is placed by Calamy among the ejected ministers after the restora-
tion. He returned to N. E. and was elected an assistant 1671 and
until 1686 ; was an agent for Massachusetts colony in England in
1677 ; one of Sir Edmund Andros' council in 1687 : one of the first
counsellors under the new charter 1692 ; chief-justice of the prov-
ince ; iieutenant-governour 1692, 9 years, and commander-in-chief
from 1694 to 1699. He d. a bachelor, at Dorchester, his residence,
7 July, 1701, ae. 70.
STOVER, SYLVESTER, Kittery 1652.
STOW, II* JOHN, Roxbury, freeman 1634, member of the ar. co.
1638 ; representative 1639. His wife d. 1638. JOHN, Concord,
freeman 1636, had a son Nathaniel. RICHARD, Massachusetts,
came over as early as 1630. SAMUEL, son of John Stow, of Rox-
bury, grad. at H. C. in 1645, and was living, according to Mather,
in 1696. There was a Samuel Stow admitted freeman in 1644,
who may be the same. IJTHOMAS, Braintree, member of the ar.
CO. 1638, had a son John, b. 3 Feb. 1641. THOMAS, Concord,
freeman 1653. * WILLIAM, Hampton, was representative in 1644,
1648, and 1649. (See Eastow.]
STOWELL, SAMUEL, Hingham 1649, had a son Samuel, born
in 1655.
STOWERS, JOHN, Watertown, freeman 1636. NICHOLAS,
Charlestown, freeman 1631, had sons, Joseph, b. in 1632, died 29
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8TQWERS. SUIH^t.
Dec. 1672 ; John, b. 1638. RICHAKD^ Charlestawn, w^s osTa
jury 28 Sept^ 16^. He may be the person <i4niiued freeman i^ 16^.
STRANGE, GEORGE^ Hinghw, freeman 1635. JOHN, Bos-
ton 1651.
STRATTON, JOHN, Salem 1637. A Jolw Strettoj> was one
of the first settlers of East-Hampton, L. I. 1650. Wood. RICH^
ARD, Watertown, d. 25 July, 1658, ap. 30.
STRAWBRIDGE, ||THOMAS, member of the ar. co. 1638.
John and George Sti[awbridge grad. at N. J. College in 1797 and
1802.
STREET, NICffOtAS, minister of Taunton and New-Ha-
ven, came from England, preached some time at the former place,
and was settled at New-Hayen in 1650, where be d, 22 April, 1674
His children were Samuel, Susannah, Sarah, Abiah, and Hannah,
all of whom married. Dodd, East-Haven Register. SAMUEIa^
Minister of Wallinglbrd, son of the preceding, grad. at H. C. 1664,
was ordained 1674, died 16 Jan. 1717. He m. (1st) Anna Miles, 3
Not. 1664, and had, 1. Anna, born 1665; 2. Samuel, h. 1667; 3.
Mary, b. 1670; 4. Nicholas, b. 14 July, 1677; 5. Sarah, h. 1681 ;
(2d)Mardline Daniels, by whom he had, 6. Samuel, 2d, b. 1685;
7. James, b. 1686 ; 8. Anna ; (3d) Hannah Glover, by whom were
born, 9. Eleanor, in 1691 ; 10. Nathaniel, in 1693; 11. EjAathan,
bom 2 Sept. 1695, who was father of Rev. Nicholas Street, Y. C.
1751, the minister of East-Haven. Conn,, who was b. 21 Feb. 1730;
12. Mary, b. 1698 ; 13. John, b. 1703. Ibid.
STREETER, STEPHEN, Charlestown 1644, probably the
freeman admitted that ye«ir, whose name is spelled Str^ete ip ii.
Winthrop, 373.
STRICKLAND, JOHN, Massachusetts, freeman 1631, perhaps
one of the first settlers of Huntington, L. I, a. 1650. The name is
Stickkmd in the colony records.
STRONG, JOHN, Hingham 1635, removed to Taunton, and
from thence to Northampton as early as 1659. [Lincoln, Hist.
Hingham.] He had 17 children. His son Thomas had 15, son
Jedidiah 12, son Samuel 12, and his grandson Jonathan 17. Si:i:ty-
one of the name, 17 of them clergymen, had grad. at the N. E. col-
leges in 1828. RETURN, Windsor 1640. 1 Coll. Mass. Hist.
Soc. v. 168.
STUART, JOHN, Springfield a. 1654. (See Stewart.) Eight
of the name of Stuart had grad. in N. E. in 1828, of whom is the
learned professor at the Andover Theological Institution.
STUBBS, JOSHUA, Massachusetts, was admitted freeman 1649.
ST YCH, HENRY, Lynn, was living in 1653, at th§ age pf 10».
Lewis
STUDSON, ROBERT, Scituate ^. 1638.
SUMNER, GEORGE, freeman 1657, was of Northampton ip
1659. ROGER, Dorchester, freeman 1657, removed to Lancaster,
was a deacon of the church, and d. at Milton, 26 May, 1691, s. 66.
His aon Samuel wash, in 1658. THOMAS, Rowley 1648. •WIL-
UAH, Dorchester, freeman 1637, r^resentaUv^ 1659, 1666-^
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StlMTNER. SWIFT.
167^, 1672, 167B^1681, and 1685 imd 1686^ 13 y^ark He had
fiOiis, Samuel, b. t638 ; ImcreaBe, b. f 643 ; and ^rhapift Willian^
of Bo6t6n in 1656. Increase Samnet, H> C 1767, ^otei-nour x>f
Massachusetts, born at Roxbury, 27 Nov. 1746, and whb d. 7 June^
17S9, in the thi^d ye?ar of his office, was descended from thiB family.
William H. Sumner, afdjtitalit'^evreral of Massach^MettA, wlio gradi
at H. C. 1799, is 'son of ^ov^rnour Sumner. Thirteen others had
grad. in N. E. in 1828. ' ,
SUNDERLAND, 10HN, Boston, had sons, Jdin and Jam^s, b.
in 1640 and 1646.
SUTTON, JOHN, Hitigham 1638, Scituate 1650. LAMBERT,
Woburn, freeman 1644, d. 27 Nov. 1649. RICHARD>^vaB a pro^-
prietor of LancaBte^r 1663. WILLIAM, N^wbtiry 1679.
SWAIN, FRANCIS, Exeter 1645. JEREMY, CharlestoWn,
had sons, Jeremy, b. 1638; and John, born 1€44. J* JEREMY,
Reading, probably son of the preceding, representative 1689, and
was elected assistant in 1690. NICHOLAS, Exeter 1643. RICH-
ARD, Rowley, admitted freeman 1638, removed to Hampton.
•ROBERT, Haverhill, representative 1684. JWILLI AM, W«atb.
ersfield, was an assistant or magistrate in 1637, and was one of the
first and principal settlers of Branford, Conn., in 1644. WILLI AM^
Hampton, d. about 1658.
SWAN, HENRY, Salem, was admitted to the church, 19 May,
-1639, and on the 22 May, same year, freeman of the colony.
♦RFCHARD, member of the church in Boston, was admitted frecv
man 1640 ; dismissed to the church in Rowley ; was representative
1666 to 1673, and* 1675, ten years. This name is written Sufai%
in some old records. * WILLI AM, was a representative at the
general court, and probably from Watertown, 25 May, 1636.
SWEETE, JOHN, a ship-carpenter of Boston, and member of
the church, was admitted freeman 1641. His son John was born
1651.
SWEETING, |[JOHN, member of the ar. co. 1673. Whitman^
160.
SWEETMAN, THOMAS, Cambridge, freeman 1688, whose
wife was Isabella, had children, Elizabeth ; Rebecca; Ruhanmh ;
Samuel, b. 16 April, 1659, grad. at H. C. 1677 ; Bethtah \ and
Hepstbah.
SWEETSER, SETH, Charlestown, freeman 1688. Seth Sweet*-
ser, one of his descendants, grad. at H. C. 1722, and died 15 Jan.
1778, ®. 74.
SWETT, BENJAMIN, Newbary as early as 1657, removed to
Hampton, was a captain, and was killed by the Indians, at Black-
Point, Maine, 29 June, 1677. [Hubbard, Hist. N. E. Belknap.]
His wife was Hester, daughter of Nathaniel Weare. He had sons,
Joseph and Moses, b. in Newbory, in 1658 and 1661. JOHN, one
of the grantees of Newbary, and admitted freeman 1642, was pro«>
bably father of the preceding.
SWIFT, THOMAS, Dorchester, freeman 1695, had sons, Tho^
8, b. 1635, freeman 1666^ Obadiab, b. 1638, m. ki 1661, Re^t,
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SWIFT. SYMONDS.
daughter of Humphrey Atherton. The first graduate of the name
was Rev. John Swift, H. G. 1697, minister of Framingham, who was
ord. 8 Oct. 1701, and d. at the age of 67. Rev. John Swift, of Ac-
ton, H. C. 1733, d. 7 Nov. 1775, sb. 63.
SWINERTON, JOB, Salem, admitted to the church and free-
man in 1639. JOHN, a physician of SaJem, d. 6 Jan. 1691, leav-
ing a widow Hannah,who d. in 1713, ae. 71. Felt, 300.
SYCKES, RICHARD, Dorchester, was admitted to the church
1639, and freeman 1640, probably removed to Springfield, and there
d. in March, 1676.
SYLVESTER, RICHARD, Weymouth, requested to be made
freeman, 19 Oct. 1630, and was admitted 1634, unless there were
two of the name. His sons. Increase and Joseph, were b. in 1634
and 1638. Savage, i. Winthrop's N. E. 289, ii. 77. •
8YMMES, ZECHARIAH, the second minister of Charles-
town, after the church was gathered in 1632, was son of William
Symmes, and was born at Canterbury, 5 April, 1599. He came to
N. £. in August, 1634, and settled at Charlestown the same year.
He was admitted freeman 1635, and d. 4 Feb. 1671, s. 72. By
Sarah, his wife, with whom he lived almost 50 years, he had Ruth,
b. 1635 ; Zechariah ; Timothy, b. 1640, d. 1641 ; Deborah, b. 1642 ;
Elizabeth, who m. Hezekiah Usher ; Mary, who m. Thomas Sav-
age; William, and several others, in all, according to Mather, 13,
of whom 5 were sons. Johnson mentions the number of his child-
ren as being ten, when he wrote, and as '* following the example of
their father and grandfather,'' both of whom he probably knew be-
fore he left England, Canterbury being but 4 miles from Herne-Hill,
the residence of Johnson. ZECHARIA H, first minister of Brad-
ford, was son of the preceding, and was born at Charlestown, 9 Jan.
1638, grad. at H. C. 1657, was ordained 27 Dec. 1682, d. 22 March,
1708, ffi. 70. His son Thomas was born at Bradford, 1 Feb. 1678,
grad. at H. C. 1698, and was the first minister of Boxford, where
he was ordained 20 Dec. 1702, dismissed 1708, and afterwards suc-
ceeded his father at Bradford, where he d. 6 Oct. 1725, in his 48th
year, having had 3 wives — ( 1st) Elizabeth, daughter of Rev. Tho-
mas Blowers, by whom he had, Thomas, Andrew, John, Elizabeth,
Anna, Abigail, and Sarah ; (2d) Hannah, who d. 1718, daughter
of Rev. John Pike, of Dover; and (3d) Eleanor Moody, a widow,
the daughter of Dr. Benjamin Tompson, of Roxbury.
SYMONDS, HENRY, Boston, freeman 1643. Snow, Hist.
Boston, 124. JOHN, Braintree, freeman 1638, might have been
the one of the same name at Salem, who died a. 1671. JOHN,
Pascataqua 1631, Kittery 1652. MARK, Ipswich, was born in
1584, was admitted freeman 1638, and d. a. 1659. t|*SAMUEL,
Ipswich, descended from an ancient and honourable family in Yield*
ham, in Essex, where he had a good estate [Hutch. Coll. 287],
came to N. E., and was admitted freeman in 16138. He was chosen
representative from 1638, 5 years, assistant from 1643 to 1672, 30
years, deputy-governour from 1673 to 1678, six years. He died in
Oct. 1678. He m. the widow of Daniel Epes. [Epes, MS Gene-
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SYMONDS. TAPPING.
alogj.] He had a large ^mily. The sons were, Samuel, who died
a. 1655 ; William, who lived at Wells ; and Harlakenden, admitted
freeman in 1665. The daughters were, Elizabeth, who m. Capt.
Daniel Epes in 1644, Ruth, who m. Rev. John Emerson, of Glou-
cester ; Priscilla, who m. Thomas Baker, of Topsfield ; Susanna ;
Dorothy, who m. Joseph Jacob ; Martha, who m. John Denison ;
and Mary, who m. Peter Duncan. Rebecca, the widow of Deputy-
governour S. d. 21 July, 1695. [Felt.] A letter written by him is
fMreserved in Hutch. Coll. of Papers, p. 227. SAMUEL, Lynn
1634, d. 26 July, 1675. Lewis. THOMAS, Braintree 1638, had
daughters Joan and Abigail. WILLIAM, Concord 1636, was a
constable in 1645, and removed from town, perhaps to East-Hamp*
ton, L. I., where was a William Symonds in 165Q. WILLIAM,
Ipswich 1637. *WILLIAM, Wells, son of Deputy-governour Sy-
monds, was admitted freeman 1670, was the representative of Wells,
Me. in 1676. He died 22 May, 1679. Some notice of him may
be £xind in Hubbard's Wars with the Eastern Indians, p. 26.
SYNDERLAND. ||JOHN, Boston 1644. Coffin. Member of
the ar. co. 1658. (See Sundarland.)
TABOR, PHILIP, Massachusetts, was admitted freeman 1634.
TAINTER, JOSEPH, was a proprietor of Watertown and Sud-
bury, about 1640.
TALBOT, WILLIAM, sailmaker, Boston 1651. One of the
name has grad. in N. E.
TALBY, JOHN, Salem 1639, died a. 1644. Hutchinson, i. Hist.
Mass. 371. Dorothy Talby was executed in 1638. Winthrop, i.
Hist. N. E. 279.
TALCOTT, {* JOHN, Cambridge, freeman 1632, was represen-
tative at the first general court 1634 ; removed to Connecticut and
was an assistant there in 1654. {SAMUEL, probably son of the
preceding, grad. at H. C. in 1658 ; and was elected a magistrate in
1685, and d. beibre 1698. Two Samuel Talcotts grad. at Y. C. in
1733 and 1757.
TALMAGE, THOMAS, Boston, freeman 1634, of Lynn in
1637, may have removed to East-Hampton, L. I. THOMAS, Jr.
East-Hampton, L. I. 1650. WILLIAM, Boston, was admitted free-
man 1634. Savage, ii. Winth. 216.
TANNER, NICHOLAS, Swanzey, 1663.
TAPLEY, CLEMENT, Massachusetts, where the name exists,
was admitted freeman 1640.
TAPP, EDMUND, one of the pillars of Milford 1639, [i. Trum-
bull, 107] and perhaps the assistant of New-Haven colony in 1643,
unless the name of the assistant was Edward.
TAPP AN, JOSEPH, Massachusetts, was admitted freeman 1634.
The name of Tappan has prevailed in some parts of Massachusetts,
and some of them were descendants from Abraham Toppan, which
see. Rev. Dr. Tappan, it is said, altered the name from Toppan to
Tappan.
TAPPING, I JOHN, was elected one of the magistrates of Con-
necticut in 1662. JOHN, of Boston in 1665. RICHARD, Bos-
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TAPPING. TAYLOR.
ton 1632, was admitted freeman 1634, and had sons, Timothy, b,
1633 ; Joseph, b. 1645. fTHOMAS, Connecticii't, a captain, was
elected magistrate 1651. This name is sometimes Topping ^ in an-
cient records.
TARBELL, THOMAS, sen. and jun. were of Groton in 1677.
Thomas Tarbell, jun. d. at Charlestown in 1678.
TARBOX, JOHN, Lynn 1630, had two sons, Samuel, who had
IS children, and John. His descendants remain at Lynn. Lewis.
TARLETON, RICHARD, came from England and settled at
Portsmouth, where his son Elias, by Ruth, his wife, was b. 13 Au-
gust, 1693. Elias had a son Elias, b. in 1720, and died at the age
of 91, who was father of Hon. William Tarleton, of Piermont, a
counsellor of N. H., and sheriff of Grafton county, whod. 19 March,
1819, JB. 67, leaving a large family.
TARNEY, BENJAMIN, Concord, was admitted freeman 1641.
MILES,, Boston 1638, freeman 1643.
TATMAN, JOHN, Roxbury, freeman 1638, d. 28 Oct. 1670.
His son Jabez was b. 1641.
TAY, HENRY, Ipswich, died a. 1655. WILLIAM, Boston,
1642, freeman 1650, and had sons, Isaiah, b. 1649, Abiel in 1652,
Nathaniel in 1654, Jeremiah in 1657. He appears to have lived in
Billerica in 1659, where he was town clerk one year. William Tay,
probably a son, was admitted freeman 1663. Widow Grace Tay d.
at Roxbury, 1712, 8B. 91.
TAYLOR, ANTHONY, Hampton 1638. Fifty-three of the
name of Taylor had grad. at the N. E., N. J., and Union colleges in
1828. CLEMENT, Dorchester 1639. Harris. EDWARD, Lynn
1639, removed to Reading, and was admitted freeman 1648. ED^
WARD, the first minister of Westfield, Mass. was born in the vil-
lage of Sketelby, near Hinkley, in Leicestershire, and came to N. E.
in 1668, grad. at.H. C. 1671 ; commenced preaching ^at Westfield
in Dec. 1671, was ord. June, 1679 ; admitted freeman 1680. He
d. 29 June, 1729, ae. about 83. He m. in 1674, Elizabeth Fitch,
who d. in 1689. His 2d wife d. in 1729. One of his daughters
was mother of president Stiles. He left 14 quarto volumes closely
written of about 400 pages each. Holmes, Life ofPres. Stiles^SSl.
E. Davis, Hist. Westfield, 28, 29. GEORGE, freeman in 1638,
was of Lynn, in 1637. Lewis. Winthrop, ii. Hist. N. E. 21.
GREGORY, Watertown, freeman 1634. HENRY, Portsmouth
1640, died 1649. Belknap, i. Hist. N. H. 47. JAMES, Concord,
m. Isabel Tompkins 1641, and d. 22 Jan. 1690. Shattuck. ^O-
iSfJSPJy, the third minister of South-Hampton, L. I. grad. 1669 at
H. C, of which he was a fellow; was ordained the successor of Rev.
Robert Fordham, March, 1680, d. in April, J 682, ae. 31. JOHN,
probably of Lynn, came from Haverhill, in England, in company
with Governour Winthrop, arrived in 1630, and was admitted free-
man 1631. His wife and child d. soon after they arrived in 1630.
JOHN, Windsor 1640. JOHN, the freeman of 1651, was of Cam-
bridge, where he d. 7 Sept. 1683, s. 73. His wife was Catharine.
His son Joseph was perhaps the graduate at H. C. (669, and the
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TAYLOR. THACHER.
minister of South-Hampton, L. I. *JAMES, Boston, freeman
1683; representative 1689 and 1693. JONATHAN, Springfield
1649. PHILIP, Massachusetts, freeman 1642. RICHARD, Bos-
ton, fi-eeman 1642, had a son John, b. 1646. SAMUEL, Ipswich
1648. THOMAS, Watertown, had a son Sinbred, b. in 1642, ad-
mitted freeman 1677, and lived in Reading. THOMAS, Spring-
field d. 1691. WILLIAM, Lynn 1642. WILLIAM, Concord
1654, d. 6 Dec. 1696, having had sons, John, b. 1654 ; Abraham
1656; Isaac 1659; Jacob. 1662; Joseph 1665. Shattuck, MS.
Hist. Concord.
TEMPLE, ABRAHAM, Salem 1636, had a son of the same
name. RICHARD, Charlestown 1647, perhaps also of Concord,
where a Richard Temple d. 15 March, 1689, leaving sons, Isaac,
Abraham, and Richard, the last two probably admitted freeman in
1671 and 1672. Sir THOMAS, came to N. E. in 1657, and re-
mained in Boston a short time, was admitted member of 2d church
in Boston 24 June, 1670, and d. 27 March, 1674. Hutchinson, i.
Hist. Mass. 190.
TENNEY, THOMAS, Rowley, 1640. Fifteen of the name had
grad. in N. E. in 1828. WILLIAM, Rowley 1640. William
Tenney was b. at Rowley 1640. Sixteen of the name had grad. at
the N. E. colleges in 1828.
TERRY, STEPHEN, Massachusetts, fi-eeman, 18 May, 1631,
removed to Windsor as early as 1640. SAMUEL, Springfield, a.
1654. Sprague, Hist. Disc. 24. Samuel Terry, H. C. 1710, was
minister of Barrington and Uxbridge.
TEWKSBURY, HENRY, Newbury, 1663, whose son Henry
was b. 15 Dec. 1664.
THACHER, ANTHONY, Marblehead 1635: Marshfield,
Yarmouth 1664, was brother of Rev. Peter Thacher, of Sarum, En-
gland, and came to N. E. in 1635, with 9 children. In attempting
to go from Ipswich bay to Marblehead with his family, and Rev.
John Avery and others, the vessel on board which they all were
was cast away on Thacher's Island, and all perished excepting Mr.
Thacher and his wife. He d. at Yarmouth, aged a. 80. He had
two sons born after this accident and before 1640, viz. Judah, who
settled in Connecticut, and John in Plymouth colony. Alden, i.
Coll. Epitaphs, 120—123. fJOHN, Yarmouth, son of the preced-
ing, was a colonel and many years counsellor of Massachusetts, and
d. 8 May, 1713, in his 75th year. His first wife was Rebecca
Winslow ; his 2d, Lydia Gorham, who d. 2 Aug. 1744, se. 83.
His children were 18, of whom 8 were by the first wife. 1. Peter,
who m. Thankful Sturges ; 2. Josiah, who m. Mary Hedge ; 3. Re-
becca ; 4. John, who m. Desire Dimmock ; 5. Bethiah ; 6. Eliza-
beth ; 7. Hannah; 8. Mary; 9. Lydia; 10. Desire; 11. Hannah;
12. Mercy; 13. Judah, who m. Sarah Crosby; 14. Mary-Anna ;
15. Joseph, who m. Ruth Hawes ; 16. Benjamin, who m. Hannah
Lombard ; 17. Mary ; 18. Thomas, who m. Thankful Baxter. His
children all married excepting the 7th and 8th, Ibid. 122, 123.
PETER, mini»ter of Milton, son of Rev. Thomas Thacher, of
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THACHER. THAYER.
■ ■ ■ , . I. . <^ . I .. , .,.
Boston, was b. at Salem, 18 July, 1651, grad. at H. C. 1671, or-
dained 1 June, 1681 ; d. 27 Dec. [Allen, Biog. Diet, says the 17th]
1727, in his 77th year. By his wife, Theodora, daughter of Rev.
John Oxenbridge, whom he m. 21 Nov. 1677, he had, 1. Theodora ;
2. Bathsheba; 3. Oxenbridge, b. 17 May, 1681, grad. at H. C. 1698,
d. at Milton, 29 Oct. 1772, ». 91 ; 4. Elizabeth ; 5. Mary ; 6. Pe-
ter, born 6 Oct. 1688, grad. at H. C. 1706, was ordained at Mid-
dleborough, Mass., 2 November, 1709, and d. 22 April, 1744, ae.
56 ; 7. John ; 8. Thomas ; 9. John, 2d. He had two other wives,
the widow of Rev. John Bailey, of Boston, and Elizabeth, wid-
ow of Rev. Joshua Gee, of Boston. RALPH, son of Rev. Tho-
mas Thacher, of Boston, was a minister at Martha's Vineyard in
1G97. Mather, i. Magnalia, 80. ♦SAMUEL, a deacon of Water-
town, was admitted freeman 1642, elected representative 1665,
1666, 1068, and 1669, and d. 30 Nov. 1669. His wife Hannah
was member of the church in Cambridge in 1658. THOMAS^
first minister of the Old South Church in Boston, was son of Rev.
Peter Thacher, of Old Sarum, England, and was b. 1 May, 1620.
He arrived at Boston 4 June, 1635, and received his educatioB un-
der President Chauncy. He was ordained at Weymouth, 2 Jan.
1645, as the successor of Mr. Newman, removed to Boston, where
he was installed 16 Feb. 1670, and d. 16 Oct. 1678, ae. 58. He m.
a daughter of Rev. Ralph Partridge, 11 May, 1643, by whom (who
d. 2 June, 1664) he had 3 sons and one daughter. Rev. T. M.
Harris, D. D. Eccl. Memoranda in MS. Thomas Thacher,
probably his son, d. at Boston, 2 April, 1686.
THALE, NICHOLAS, was an inhabitant of Watertown in 1645.
Coffin.
THAXTER, ♦JOHN, son of the following, resided in Hingham,
which he represented in 1666. He d. March, 1687, having had
12 children, of whom Samuel was a colonel, representative, and
counsellor, and had 4 children, two of whom were, Elizabeth, who
m. Capt. John Norton, and a^erwards Colonel Benjamin Lincoln,
the fether of the distinguished revolutionary general, and Samuel,
who was b. 8 Oct. 1695, grad. at H. C. 1714, and d. 4 Dec. 1732.
Samuel, son of the last, was b. 15 Nov. 1723, grad. at H C. 1743,
and was an officer in the old French war, and present at the masa*
ere of Fort William Henry, 1767. He d. at Bridgewater, 6 Aug.
1771. Lincoln, Hist. Hingham, 47, 116, J23. THOMAS, Hing-
ham 1638, was admitted freeman in 1642, and d. 14 Feb. 1654, his
wife, Elizabeth, surviving him. He is the common ancestor of all
of the name in Hingham and its vicinity. He left sons John and
Samuel. The first five graduates of the name at H. C. are his de-
scendants, and perhaps all the others are. Ibid, 47.
THAYER, NATHANIEL, Taunton 1665. NATHANIEL,
Boston, had a son Cornelius, b. 14 Nov. 1684, a deacon of the
church, on whose death, in 1745, Dr. Colman preached a funeral
sermon, whose son, Nathaniel Thayer, was b. 17 July, 1710, the
father, probably, of Rev. Ebenezer Thayer, of Hampton, N. H., b.
at Boston, 16 July, 1734, grad. at H. C. 1758, died 6 Sept. 1792.
Rev. Nathaniel Thayer, D. D., of Lancaster, Mass., son of the last,
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THAYER. THOMPSON.
|rad. at H. C. 1789, and was ordained 9 Oct. 1793. RICHARD,
Boston 1640. RICHARD, son of the preceding, lived in Brain-
tree, where he m. Dorothy Pray, 24 Dec. 1651, and had, Richard,
b. 31 Aug. 1655 ; Nathaniel, b. 1 Jan. 1658. THOMAS, Brain-
tree, freeman 1647, died in 1665, leaving a wife, Margery, and 3
sons, 1. Thomas, died 1692, ae. 70, who had sons, Isaac, b. 1654,
d. 1690; John, b. 1656; Isaac, b. 1661 ; Ebenezer, b. 1665, and
2 daughters ; 2. Shadrach, who had sons. Trial, b. 1657 ; Timothy,
1666 ; Ephraim, b. 1669, who m. in 1692, Sarah, daughter of John
Bass, and the ancestor of between 2000 and 3000 descendants ;
William, b. 1675; Samuel, b. 1667, and 4 daughters; 3. t'erdi*
nando, who had sons, David, b. 1660 ; Jonathan ; David, 2d, and
several daughters.
THOM, WILLIAM, Lynn 1638, went to Long-Island 1640.
Lewis.
THOMAS, ||EVAN, a vintner of Boston, was admitted freeman
1641, member of the ar. co. 1653, died 25 Aug. 1661. Savage, i.
Winth. N. E. 25. DAVID, Marblehead 1648. FRANCIS, Bos-
ton, had a son John b. in 1665. GEORGE, Boston, whose wife
was Rebecca, had sons, Peter, born 6 Feb. 1682 ; George, born 16
March, 1685 ; Maverick, born 19 March, 1694. Peter, had sons,
George, Elias, Peter, William, and Moses. From Moses descended
Isaiah Thomas, LL. D. of Worcester, Joshua, M. D., Alexander,
D. C. 1792, Isaiah, H. C. 1825, and Rev. Moses Gaorge Thomas,
of Concord, N. H., who grad. at Brown in 1825, and was ord. 25
Feb. 1829. HUGH, Roxbury, freeman 1651, d. 6 May, 1683, m.
76. NATHANIEL, Marshfield, 1643. ROWLAND, Springfield
1650, Westfield 1670, d. 21 Feb. 1697, at Springfield. WILLIAM,
born a. 1599, came to N. E. and settled at Newbury, where he d. 1
Jan. 1680, ae. 80, Susannah, his wife, d. 27 March, 1677. JWIL*
LIAM, an assistant of Plymouth colony seven years, from 1642 to
1650, came to N. E. a. the year 1630, and d. in Aug. 1651, ae. 77.
His son Nathaniel served in Philip's war, 1675. Davis, Morton's
Memo. 250. Twenty-seven of the name had received the honours
of college in N. £. in 1828.
THOMPSON, Anthony, New-Haven 1639, who had a son John.
Dodd, 154—156. EDMUMD, Salem 1637, was admitted to the
church 29 Dec. 1639. JAMES, Charlestown, d, a. 1682. JAMES,
Woburn, was born a. 1593, admitted freeman 1634, when he pro-
bably resided in Charlestown. Eliza, his wife, d. Nov. 1639, and
he m. Susanna Blodget in Feb. 1644. His son James was born 24
Jan. 1646. JOHN, New-Haven 1639, was a brother of Anthony
Thompson, d. 11 Dec. 1674. Dodd, 154—156. JOHN, Water-
town, freeman 1635, d. in Feb. 1639. JOHN, Concord 1640, free-
man J 653, had a son John, b. in 1642. JOHN, Plymouth 1649,
had a son John, born that year. JONATHAN, Woburn 1659, was
probably the son of James or Simon, of that place. His sons were,
Jonathan, James, Simon, and Ebenezer, of whom Jonathan, b. 28
Sept. 1663, was the great-grandfather of Sir Benjamin Thompson,
the distinguished philosopher, known by the name of Count Rum-
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THOMPSON. THORWELL.
ford, who was b. at Woburn, 26 March, 1753. The late^ President
Adams, and others have conjectured that the count was descended
from Rev. William Tompson, of Braintree, but Mr. Jackson, of
Boston, by a careful examination of the Woburn town records, has
traced his descent to the early Thompsons of Woburn, and thus
settled all conjectures respecting his ancestry. MAURICE, Cape*
Ann 1639. Felt, Annals Salem, 121. ||ROBERT, a major, and
some time an inhabitant of Boston, was a member of the ar. co.
1639. His name often occurs in ancient records in connexion with
grants and titles of land. SIMON, Ipswich 1636, d. in 1675, leav-
ing a wife Rachel, and Thomas, Samuel, and Hannah Woods, grand-
children, and sons-in-law Abraham Fitts and Josiah Woods. Felt.
SIMON, Woburn 1643, perhaps the freeman in 1648, and one of
the first settlers of Chelmsford. A Simon Thompson died in 1658.
SIMON, Woburn 1644, probably son of the preceding, had sons^
John, b. 4 April, 1645 ; James, b. 20 March, 1649. THOMAS,
one of the first settlers of East-Hampton, L. I. 1650. Wood. WIL-
LIAM, New-Haven 1647. Dodd, 154. WILLIAM, Braintree.
(See ToMPsoN.) Forty-six had g/ad. at the N. E. and N. J. col-
leges in 1828.
THORNDIKE, JOHN, settled in Ipswich in 1633, returned to
England in 1668, and there d. in 1670, leaving six daughters and
one son, *PAUL, a lieutenant, and representative of Beverly in
1680, where he resided, who m. Mary Patch in April, 1668, and
had sons, John born 22 Jan. 1674 ; Paul, and Herbert. John m.
Joanna Dodge, 1696, and had six sons. Paul m. and had 10 sons,
of whom Andrew, born 12 Nov. 1719, was father of Hon. Israel
Thorndike, a wealthy merchant of Boston.
THORLAYE, RICHARD, one of the first settlers of Rowley,
removed to Newbury, where his son Francis also resided, had a nu-
merous family, and d. 26 Nov. 1703. This name is now written
Thurlo and Thorla.
THORNDON, JOHN, one of the founders of the first Baptist
church in Newport, 1644.
THORNE, WILLIAM, Massachusetts, was admitted freeman
1638. Union College presents one graduate of this name in 1811.
THORNTON, PETER, Boston 1637, had a son Joseph born
that year. THOMAS, Massachusetts, freeman 1634, probably re-
moved to Windsor. 1 Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. v. 168. THOMAS,
minister of Yarmouth, came to N. E., according to Mather, afler
the general ejectment of ministers following the restoration of
Charles II. He removed to Boston, and d. there, 15 Feb. 1700, sb.
near 93 years. Calef, More Wonders, 62. Sewall, MS. Mather
[ii. Magnalia, 418] gives an account of his daughter Priscilla. Tim-
othy Thornton was a representative of Boston in 1693, 1694, and
1695.
THORPE, HENRY, Massachusetts, freeman 1645. THOMAS,
of Ipswich, died a. J 677.
THORWELL, THOMAS, Boston, is styled captain, and d. 11
March, 1661.
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THROCKMORTON. TILLOTSON.
THROCKMORTON, GEORGE, probably the one who arrived
at Nantasket 5 Feb. 1631, although Mr. Savage, in a note in i.
Winthrop, Hist. N. E. 42, considers John as the one who arrived
in the ship Lyon at this time ; yet the list of freemen admitted 18
May following, gives the name of George. JOHN, Salem 1639,
became a Baptist, and went to Rhode-Island. Hutchinson, i. Hist.
Mass. 371. 3 Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. i. 172. Savage, i. Winth. 42.
Felt, Annals Salem.
THURSTON, DANIEL, Newbury, d. 16 Feb. 1666, leaving no
family. Coffin. DANIEL, Newbury 1637, whose 1st wife d. in
1648, m. the same year to Anna Lightfoot, and left posterity. JOHN,
Newbury 1641 . JOHN, Dedham freeman 1643, had a son Benjamin
born 1640, freeman 1665. John Thurston, of Medfield, freeman
1663, was probably a son. Thomas Thurston, also of Medfield,
had sons, John, b. 1656, Thomas, Nathaniel, and others. RICH-
ARD, Salem, 1637, perhaps of Boston 1652. Edward Thurston
was of Newport, R. I., in 1672.
THWING, BENJAMIN, joiner, Boston, member of the church
1642, freeman 1645, had sons Edward and John, and was a propri-
etor of Watertown, and probably of Concord.
TIBBETTS, JEREMIAH, Dover 1656, by Mary, his wife, had,
Jeremiah, b. 5 June, 1656 ; Mary, 1658 ; Thomas, born 24 Feb.
1660 ; Hannah, 1662 ; Joseph, 7 Aug. 1663. HENRY, who was
of Dover in 1665. WALTER, Salem, died a. 1651. This name
is also spelled Tebbets, Tibbits, Tibbets, and Tibbitts,
TICKNER, WILLIAM, Scituate 1646.
TIDD, JOHN, Woburn, died 24 April, 1657. JOHN, Charles-
town 1644, had sons John and James. ROBERT, freeman 1643.
TIFT, WILHAM, Massachusetts, was admitted freeman 1641.
TILDEN, NATHANIEL, Plymouth and Scituate, came from
the county of Kent, and perhaps from Tentenden, before 1628, and
died in 1641. Lydia, his widow, m. Timothy Hatherly. Thomas,
who arrived at Plymouth in the ship Ann, in 1623, was probably
his son. Joseph, another son, and the eldest, lived in Scituate, and
d. in 1670. 2 Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. iv. 242.
TILESTONE, THOMAS, Massachusetts, was admitted freeman
in 1637. One of the name had grad. in N. E. in 1828. The ven-
erable John Tileston, the master of the north writing school in Bos-
ton, d. in 1826, ae. 92. ♦TIMOTHY, Dorchester, freeman 1666,
representative in 1689. Cornelius Tilestone d. at Dorchester in
June, 1659.
TILLINGHA8T, PARDON, was b. at Seven-Cliffe, near
Beachy-Head, England, a. 1622, came to N. E. and was settled the
Baptist minister of Providence in 1645. Benedict, i Hist. Baptists,
478.
TILLOTSON, JOHN, Rowley, thence to Newbury, m. Dorcas
Coleman 1648, and had children, Mary ; John, b. 1651 ; James,
1652; Philadelphia, 1656; Joseph, 1657; Jonathan, 1659, and
others.
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TILLEY. TOMPKINS.
TILLEY, EDWARD and JOHN, two of the pilgrims of Plym-
path, came to N. E. in 1620, and both d. the next year. JOHN,
Massachusetts, admitted freeman 1635.
TILTON, JOHN, Lynn 1642, had a son John of Lynn in 1642.
PETER, Windsor 1640. 1 Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. 168. {♦PE-
TER, representative of Hadley from 1665 to 1676, excepting 1667,
1669, and 1671, was a deacon of the church, and elected assistant
from 1680 to 1686, seven years. WILLIAM, Lynn 1645, died a.
1653.
TINGLEY, PALMER, Ipswich 1639, was one of the Pequot
soldiers. SAMUEL, d. at Maiden in Dec. 1666. Rev. Pelatiah
Tingley grad. at Y. C. 1761.
TINKER, JOHN, Boston 1651, freeman 1654, Lancaster 1657,
where he was town clerk. He went to " Pequid" 1659. Willard,
Hist. Lancaster. THOMAS, one of the Plymouth pilgrims, arriv-
ed in 1620, and d. before March, 1621.
TINKIIAM, EPHRAIM, Plymouth, had sons, Ephraim, b. 164^,
Ebenezer, b. 1651 ; Samuel, b. 1656; John, b. 1656; Isaac, b.
1666.
TITCOMB, ♦WILLIAM, came from Newbury, England, and
settled at Newbury, admitted freeman 1642, representative 1655, d.
24 Sept. 1676. His children were, sons, Peniel, b. 1650 ; Benaiah,
b. 1653 ; William, 1659 ; Thomas, b. 1661 ; and John, and 7 daugh-
ters. Col. Titcomb, who was killed in the French war 1755, was
TITTERTON, ||SAMUEL, member of the ar. co. 1643.
TITUS, ROBERT, Weymouth, freeman 1640. Abiel, b. 1640,
Content and Samuel Titus were of Long-Island in 1672.
TODD, ♦JOHN, Rowley 1650, representative 1686. His wid-
ow d. 1710. Twelve of the name had grad. at Y. C. in 1828, of
whom several were clergymen. ||JOSHUA, freeman 1639, mem-
ber of the ar. co. 1644. WALTER, Rhode-Island 1664. 2 Cdl.
Mass. Hist. Soc. vii. 93.
TOLL, JOHN, Sudbury freeman 1645. John C. Toll, the on-
ly graduate of the name, received his degree at Union College in
1799.
TOLMAN, THOMAS, Dorchester, was admitted freeman 164a
Thomas and John Tolman, probably his sons, were admitted free-
man 1678.
TOMLYNS, ll^EDWARD, Lynn 1630, was representative at
the first general court 1634, again in 1635 and 1644, member of
the ar. co. 1638, clerk of the writs in 1643. He went to Long-Is-
land in 1640, but returned to Lynn ; went to England in 1644, re-
sided in London, and appears to have been at Dublin in Ireland in
1679. Lewis, MS Annals of Lynn. ♦TIMOTHY, Lynn 1630,
brother of the preceding, was admitted freeman 1633, was repre-
sentative 6 years, firom 1635 to 1640. Savage, ii. Winth. Hist. N.
E. 5. Ibid.
TOMPKINS, JOHN, Concord, removed to Fairfield, Sept. 1644.
Shattuck. JOHN, jun. Salem 1637, freeman 1642. RALPH,
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TOMPKINS. TOOTHACHER.
Dorchester, freeman 1638. SAMUEL, one of the proprietors of
Bridgewater 1645. Rev. Isaac Tompkins, d. at Haverhill in 1826.
TOMPSON, ARCHIBALD, Marblehead 1637, was drowned
in 1641. Winthrop, ii. Hist. N. E. 43. BENJAMIN, Braintree,
son of Rev. William Tompsoh, was born 14 July, 1642, grad. at
H. C. 1662, was famed as a poet, physician, and schoolmaster, and
d. 13 April, 1714, ae. 72, leaving 8 children and 28 grand-children.
Specimens of his poetry may be found in the first edition of Hub-
bard's Indian Wars, and in the Magnalia. EDWARD, minister
of Marshfield, was probably son of the preceding. He grad. at H.
C. 1684, instructed a school several years at Newbury, was ordain-
ed at Marshfield, 14 Oct. 1696, and d. 16 March, 1705, ae. 40.
His son Samuel, born at Newbury, 1 Sept. 1691, grad. at H. C.
1710, and was the minister of Gloucester. William, another son,
H. C. 1718, was ordained the minister of Scarborough, Me. 1727,
and d. Feb. 1759, aged a. 60. Rev. John Tompson, of Standish
and Berwick, Me. who grad. at H. C. 1765, was son of Rev. Wil-
liam, of Scarborough, and d. 21 Dec. 1828, ae. 88. pEORGE,
Reading, d. 7 Sept. 1674. ♦JOSEPH, Billerica, son of Rev. Wil-
Ham Tompson, was b. at Braintree, 1 May, 1640, m. Mary Brack-
ett, 24 July, 1662, and soon after settled in Billerica, where he was
a schoolmaster, captain, selectman, town clerk, deacon of the church,
many years, and in 1699, 1700, and 1701, a representative to the
general court. He d. 13 Oct. 1732, as. 92. Mary, his 2d wife, d.
9 Oct. 1743, 33. 91. Benjamin Tompson. esq. and Colonel William
Tompson, magistrates and representatives of Billerica, were his des-
cendants. *SAMUEL, brother of the preceding, was born in En-
gland, a. 1631, came to N. E. with his father in 1637, lived in Brain-
tree, which he represented 14 years, from 1676 to 1679 and 1682
to 1691, and where he was ordained deacon 2 Nov. 1679. He d.
18 June, 1695, ae. 64. He m. Sarah Shepard, 14 Sept. 1656. His
son Samuel was b. 6 Nov. 1662. He m. a 2d wife, Elizabeth Bil-
lings, in 1680. WILLIAM, one of the first ministers of Braintree,
now Quincy, came from Lancashire, where he had been a preach-
er, to N. E. in 1637, and was installed 24 Sept. 1639. He was ad-
mitted freeman, 13 May, 1640; went to Virginia as a missionary
in 1642, returned in J 643. While absent, his wife, Abigail, d. in
Jan. 1643. He d. 10 Dec. 1666, aged 68. Anna, a second wife,
survived him. His children were William, Samuel, Joseph, Benja-
min, and a daughter, who m. William Very. This family has been
uniform in omitting the h in the name, which is erroneously retain-
ed throughout the History of Quincy. WILLIAM, graduated at
H. C. 1653, and was probably son of the preceding. He became a
preacher and was invited to settle at Springfield. He m. 19 Nov.
1655, Catharine, daughter of Richard Treat, of Weathersfield, and
appears to have been living in 1698.
TOOLLY, EDWARD, New-Haven 1665, Dodd. E. Haven Reg.
TOOTHACHER, ROGER, Billerica, admitted an inhabitant
1660, had a son, grandson, and great-'grandson, all physicians, of
the name of Roger.
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TOPLIFF. TOZBR.
TOPLIFF, CLEMENT, Dorchester 1637, had a eon Jonathan,
b. that year. Samuel Topliff grad. at H. C. 1795.
TOPPAN, ABRAHAM, Newbury, was admitted freeman in
1638, m. Susanna Goodale of Yarmouth, Eug. and had sons, Abra-
ham ; Isaac; Jacob, admitted freeman 1677; Peter; John, b. 23
April, 1651. Peter m. Jane, daughter of Christopher Batt, 3 April,
1661 ; was a physician, and killed by a fall, 10 Nov. 1707, and was
&ther of Rev. Christopher Toppan, of Newbury, b. 15 Dec. 1671,
grad. at H. C. 1691, ordained 9 Sept. 1696, d. 23 July, 1747, ae.
75, whose wife was Sarah Angier, of Waltham, Ms., and two of
whose sons were educated at H. C, Edmund, a physician of Hamp-
ton, who grad. 1720, and Bezaleel, who grad. 1722, and d. 1762,
SB. 58. Edmund was father of the Hon. Christopher Toppan, of
Hampton, whose son Edmund grad. at H. C. 1796.
TOPPING, JTHOMAS. (See Tapping.)
TORREY, JAMES, was a lieutenant of Scituate in 1640.
PHILIP, Roxbury, was admitted freeman in 1644, d. May, 1686.
SAMUEL, minister of Weymouth, succeeded Rev. Thomas Thach-
er in 1656, and d. 21 April, 1707, ae. 75, having been a faithful
minister 51 years. He m. Mrs. Mary Symmes, 30 July, 1695.
II* WILLI AM, Weymouth, freeman 1642, member of the ar. co.
1641, representative from 1642 to 1649, excepting 1646 and 1647,
and perhaps the representative again from 1679 to 1683. Johnson
[Hist. N. E. 110] says that he was " a good penman and skilled in
the Latin tongue,'' and was '^ usually Clarke of the deputies."
Sixteen of the name had received the honours of the N. E. colleges
in 1828.
TOTENHAM, HENRY, Woburn 1653. 3 Coll. Mass. Hist.
Soc. i. 45.
TOUTON, JOHN, a physician from Rochelle, in France, settled
in Massachusetts as early as 1662.
TOWER, JOHN, Hingham 1637, freeman 1638, Lancaster
1654. Savage, ii. Winth. N. E. 234. Willard, Hist. Lancaster.
TOWLE, ROGER, was admitted freeman 1644
TOWNE, WILLIAM, Cambridge, freeman 1637, with his wife
Martha, belonged to the church in 1658. He had a son Peter, who
was b. in England.
TOWNSEND, II JOHN, was a member of the ar. co. 1641.
Twenty persons of the name of Townsend had grad. at the N. E.
colleges in 1826. ROBERT, Portsmouth 1665. THOMAS, Lynn,
freeman 1638, d. 22 Dec. 1677. Lewis. Thomas, Henry, and
John Townsend, probably his sons, were among the first settlers of
Oyster-Bay, Long-Island. WILLIAM, Boston, freeman 1636, had
sons, Peter, b. 1642, d. 14 May, 1696; James, b. 1646; Penn, b.
1651 ; John, b. 3 Sept. 1653. ||*PENN, Boston, son of the pre-
ceding, was b. 20 Dec. 1651, member of the ar. co. 1674, repre-
sentative 1686, 11 years ; d. 21 Aug. 1727, bb. 75.
TOZER, RICHARD, Boston 1657, probably went to Maine,
and was killed by the Indians in October, 1675. Hubbard. Sul-
livan.
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TRACY. TRICKEY.
TRACY, STEPHEN, Plymouth 1623, Daxbary 1645. A. Brad-
ford. STEPHEN, Saybrook 1637, probably ancestor of the distin-
guished iaiiiilies of this name in Connecticut. Hon. Uriah Tracy, of
this state, d. 9 July, 1807, ae. 53. THOMAS, Salem 1637. Sev-
enteen of the name had grad. at the N. E. colleges in 1828.
TRAIN, JOHN, Watertown 1640. Rev. Charles Train, of Fra-
mingham, grad. at H. C. 1805.
TRAPP, THOMAS, vj^as one of the first four settlers at Martin's
Vineyard. Coffin.
TRASK, ♦WILLIAM, came to N. E. with Governour Endecott,
and arrived at Salem, Sept. 1628, requested to be made freeman
19 Oct. 1630, was a captain, and represented Salem 5 years, from
1^3& to 1639. H^ d. in 1666, and was buried under arms, leav-
ing children, Mary, b. 1637; William, baptized 19 Sept. 1640,
Susan, Mary, and John. Prince, i. Annies, 174. Felt, Annals
Salem, 227.
TRAVERS, DANIEL, Boston 1662, had sons Daniel, Jeremi-
ah, and Timothy. HENRY, Newbury 1644, had a son James, b.
28 April, 1645. RICHARD, Boston, a. 1652.
TREADWELL, EDWARD, Ipswich 1637. Felt, MS Letter.
THOMAS, Ipswich, freeman 1638, d. 8 June, 1670. Winthrop,
ii. Hist. N. E. 346. Felt, MS letter.
TREADWAY, NATHANIEL, Sudbury 1640, whose so» Jon-
aAhaA was b. 1640. Rev. James Treadway grad. at Y. C. 1759.
TREAT, IRICHARD, Weathersfield, was elected an assistant
of Connecticut in 1658. ^tJROBERT, New-Haven colony, was
elected assistant in 1659, of Connecticut colony 1673, one of Sir
Edmund Andros' council 1687, governour 1683 to 1697, fifteen
years ; d. 12 July, 1710, in his 89th year. Dr. Holmes [i. Annals,
504] says be had been governour o^ deputy-governour of Connecti-
cut 32 years. SAMUEL, ministet of Eastham, was son of the
preceding, and grad. at H. C. 1669, was ordained 1672, d. 18
M«rch, 1717, in his 69th year. His wife was Abigail, widow of
Rev. Benj. Estabrook, and daughter of Rev. Samu«l Willard. Eight
at Yale and two at Harvard of this name had grad. in 1828.
TREFETHBJN, HENRY, New-Hampshire 1687, where the
name continues. He was one of the grand-jury of New-Hampshire,
1687. This name is spelt Trexethan in England.
TRELAWNY, ROBERT, the owner of Richmond's Island,
Maine, about 1643. ^
TRESCOTT, WILLIAM, Dorchester, freeman 1643. John
Trescott d. at Dorchester in 1740, «. 90. Col. Lemuel Trescott,
probably a descendant, d. at Lul)ec, Me., in 1826.
TRERICE, NICHOLAS, Charlestown, where his son John was
b. in 1639, of Woburn in 1643, where his son Samuel was b. that year.
TRESLER, THOMAS, Salem, admitted to the church J5 Dec.
1639, freeman 1642, died a. 1654. This name in the Salem re-
cords is Trusler,
TRICKEY, THOMAS, Exeter 1644. Persons of this name,
probably his descendants, are in New-Hampshire.
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TRIMMINGS. TUDOR.
TRIMMINGS, OLIVER, Exeter 1644.
TRIPP, JOHN, Portsmouth, R. I., deputy in 1672.
TRISTRAM, RALPH, Saco 1652. Samuel, Saco about the
same time. This name is frequently Trustrum^ and by mistake is
Trentrum in Sullivan.
TROTT, THOMAS, Dorchester, freeman 1644. Bernard
Trott was of Boston in 1665. Lemuel Trott grad. at H. C. 1733.
TROTMAN, JOHN, Boston 1645.
TROTTER, WILLIAM, Newbury, one of the early settlers, m.
Cutbury Gibbs in 1652, and had several children.
TROWBRIDGE, JAMES, Dorchester 1658, married 1659 to
Margaret, and had sons, James, Jonathan, and William, b. in Dor-
chester, and John and Thomas, and perhaps Caleb, b. in Newton,
to which place he removed. Hon. Edmund Trowbridge, H. C.
1728, who d. 2 April, 1793, bb. 84, was a descendant. Holmes, ii.
Annals, 396.
TRUE, ♦HENRY, Salisbury, freeman 1675, representative 1689,
was probably the ancestor of Rev. Henry True, the i&rst minister of
Hampstead, N. H., who grad. at H. C. 1750, was ordained 24 June,
1752, and d. 22 May, 1782.
TRUESDALE, RICHARD, Massachusetts, freeman 1635, per-
haps brother-in-law of Gov. Winthrop. [ii. Winth. 353.] JOHN,
sen. and jun., were of Kittery in 1652. SAMUEL, admitted free-
man in 1685, settled at Cambridge Village, and m. Abigail, daugh-
ter of Dea. Jno. Jackson.
TRULL, JOHN and SAMUEL, of Billerica 1675. John d. 15
June, 1704, 8b. 70. The naine is probably derived from Trull in
Somersetshire.
TRUMBULL, DANIEL, Lynn 1647. Lewis. JOHN, Cam-
bridge 1636, freeman 1640, had sons, John, b. 4 August, 1641, and
James, born 1647. JOHN, Rowley as early as 1643, and perhaps
earlier, and the second John Trumbull admitted freeman in 1640.
He was probably the deacon of Rowley church, ordained 24 Dec.
1686. This name has been much distinguished in Connecticut.
TUCKE, ROBERT, Watertown, freeman 1639, probably the
same who went to Hampton, and d. 1665. EDWARD, Hampton,
died a. 1653.
TUCKER, JOHN, Hingham at an early period. John Tucker
m. Mary Richardson, of Newbury in 1676. Ephraim and Manas-
seh Tucker were admitted freemen in 1678. ROBERT, Wey-
mouth 1639. ♦ROBERT, Milton, was representative in 1680 and
1681. ROGER, Salem, died a. 1661.
TUCKERMAN, JOHN, Boston J 655. Rev. Joseph Tucker-
man, D. D., formerly the minister of Chelsea, grad. at H. C, 1798.
TUDOR, OWEN, came from Wales, and was one of the early
settlers of Windsor. I)is son Samuel began the settlement on the
east side of Conn. River, at Windsor, about 1677. Rev. Samuel
Tudor, of Windsor, was a descendant, and father of Dr. Elihu Tu-»
dor, who d. at East-Windsor, 6 March, 1826, s. 93. Boston News*
Letter of March, 1826.
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TUFTS. TURNER.
TUFTS, PETER, was b. in 1617, came from England as early
as 1654, admitted freeman 1665, settled in that part of Charlestown
now Maiden, and died 13 May, 1700, sb. 83, leaving a wife, Mary,
who d. Jan. 1703, sons, Peter, Jonathan, and John, and daughters,
Mary Edes, Elizabeth Lynde, Mercy Waite, and Sarah Oakes.
•PETER, Medford, freeman 1679, a captain, and representative in
1689, m. Elizabeth Lynde, 26 August, 1670, and d. a. 1721, leav-
ing 11 children. His son Peter probably removed to Quaboag,
Brookfield. His son Thomas grad. at H. C. 1701, was a merchant
of Charlestown, and d. a. 1734. Simon Tufts, who grad. at H. C.
1724, a physician of Medford, was son or grandson of Capt. Peter.
He d. 30 Jan. 1747, se. 47, leaving two sons educated at Harvard,
Simon, a physician of Medibrd, who grad. in 1744, and d. in Dec.
1786, and Cotton, a physician of Weymouth, and president of the
M. M. S., and often a senator and counsellor of the commonwealth.
Cotton Tufts. H. C. 1767, was son of the last named, and Cotton
Tufts, H. C. 1789, was son of the 2d Simon Tufts. Rev. John
Tufts, H. C. 1708, minister of the 2d church in Newbury, Rev.
Joshua Tufts, H. C, 1736, the first minister of Litchfield, N. H.,
Thomas, Abijah, Hall, and Joseph Tufts, all graduates of Harvard
College, were descended fi*om the first Peter.
TUPPER, THOMAS, Lynn, removed to Sandwich 1637, and
d. in 1676, ». 97. Ann, his wife, died 1675, ae. 97. One of this
name, and probably his son, was a preacher to the Indians in Ply-
mouth colony, a. 1692. Mather, i. Magnalia, 517.
TURELL, IJDANIEL, a captain of Boston in 1646, member of
the ar. co. in 1656, d. 23 Jan. 1699. WILLIAM, of Boston, had a
son William b. in 1657. Rev. Ebenezer Turell of Medford, H. C.
1721, was, it is believed, of this family.
TURIN, IJDANIEL, member of the ar. co. 1660. Whitman.
TURNER, Humphrey, Scituate 1633, died a. 1673, leaving a
numerous descent, John being the eldest son. 2 Coll. Mass. Hist.
Soc. iv. 243. JEFFREY, Dorchester, freeman 1643, had sons,
Prakever, born in 1640 and settled in Northampton ; Increase, b.
in 1642. JOHN, Plymouth, one of the first pilgrims 1620, died in
1621. JOHN, Salem, son of John Turner, who d. at Barbadoes in
1668, d. at Salem, 1680, leaving an estate of ,£6788. His children
were, John, Elizabeth, Eunice, Freestone, and Abiel. Felt. JOHN,
Lynn 1647. Lewis. JOHN, Medfield, freeman 1649, had sons,
John, b. 1651 ; Isaac, and Samuel. MICHAEL, Lynn 1637, went
to Sandwich same year. Lewis. ||*NATHANIEL, a captain in
the Pequot war, was of Lynn in 1630, admitted freeman 1632, rep-
resentative at the first court in 1634, again in 1635. He removed
to New-Haven in 1638, and was one of the purchasers of Stamford
fi'om the Indians in 1640. He was lost at sea in the same ship
with Thomas Gregson, Mr. Lamberton, and others, who sailed from
New-Haven in Jan. 1646. There was a Captain Turner who was
killed by the Indians in Philip's war, 1675. ||ROBERT, Boston,
freeman 1634, member of the ar. co. 1640, a lieutenant 1662, had
7 SOBS born in Boston, of whom Ephraim was admitted freeman in
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TURNER. TYNG.
1666. WILLIAM, Dorchester 1642. A William Turner was one
of the founders pf the first Baptist church in Boston, and came from
Dartmouth, England. Benedict
TUTHILL, JOHN, New-Haven 1644, perhaps of South-Old in
1640. JOHN, Massachusetts, was admitted freeman in 1671.
TUTTLE, HENRY, Hingham, came over in 1637, and was ad-
mitted freeman 1638. Lincoln, Hist. Hingham, 43, where the
name is spelled Tuttil ||*JOHN, Ipswich 1637, member of the
ar. CO. 1643, was representative at the March session 1644. JOHN,
Boston 1653. RICHARD, husbandman,. Boston, freeman 1636,
d. 8 May, 1640. Savage, ii Winthrop, 216. j|SIMON, Ipswich,
d. in Jan. 1692, may have been the member of the ar. co. 1651.
WILLIAM, Charlestown 1637. Winthrop, ii. Hist. N. E. 348.
WILLIAM, New-Haven 1645. had sons, Thomas, Jonathan, Joseph,
Simon, and Nathaniel. Dodd, East-Haven Register, 156.
T WELLS, ROBERT, Braintree, freeman 1668, was a lieutenant,
m'. Martha Brackett 1651. Name spelled Twellers and Tweivea.
Mr. Whitney [Hist. Quincy, 47] might have found his name in
the Braintree records.
TWISDEN, JOHN, Scituate 1639, removed to Georgiana, Me.
2 Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. iv.
TWITCHELL, BENJAMIN, was one of the proprietiM^ of Lan-
caster 1654. JOSEPH, Massachusetts, was admitted freeman
1634..
TYBBOT, WILLIAM, Gloucester, freeman 1642, perhaps Tib-
betts.
TYLER, ABRAHAM, HaverhUl 1650, d. 6 May, 1673. Sal-
tonstall, Hist. Haverhill. JOB, Andover a. 1653, had a son Moses,
who died 1727, s. 85, having had 10 sons. NATHANIEL, Lynn
1642.
TYLLEY, JOHN. (See Tillby.) Samuel Tyley grad. at H.
C. 1733.
TYNG, |||*EDWARD, a merchant of Boston 1639, was admitp
ted to the church, and to the oath of freeman in 1641, member of
the ar. co. 1642, representative 1661 and 1662, assistant from 1666
to 1681, 14 years, and colonel of the SulKblk regiment. It appears
that he was elected major-general after Leverett, but it is not known
that he served in that office. He removed to DunstaUe, and there
d. 28 Dec. 1681, e. 81. He had two wives, the last Mary by name,
and his children were, Jonathan ; fUlward ; Hannah, who m. Habi*-
jah Savage ; Eunice, the 2d wife of Rev. Samuel Willard ; Rebec-
ca, who m. Governour Joseph Dudley, and another dat^ter, who
m. a Searle. Aldea, Coll. Epitaphs. |EIDWARD, second son of
the preceding, was one of Sir Edmund Andros' council 1687, and
was appoint^ governour of Annapolis, and was taken prisons on
his passage to that place, carried into France, where he d. His wife
was a daughter of Thaddeus Clarke, of Portland, and his children
were, I. Edward, a brave naval commander, b. 1683, andd. at Bos^
ton, 8 Sept. 1765 ; 2. Jonathan, who d. at an early age ; d. Mary,
who m. Rev. John Fox, of Woburn ; 4. Elizabeth^ wbnm. a lumber
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TYNG. UPHAM.
of Dr. Franklin. Ibid, ii. 96. ( JONATHAN, Woburn, son of ther
preceding, waa b. 15 Dec. 164!^; was one of Sir Edmund Andbroei^
council 1687, a magistrate, and a man of influence. He d. 19 Jan«
1734, SB. 8^ He m. Sarah, daughter of Hozekiah Usher, and she
probably d. in March 1714. Judith, his widow, d. 5 June, 1736,
in her 99th year. Two of his sons were, 1. John, who grad. at H.
C. 1691, lived in Chelmsford, and was a major, and killed by the
Indians, in Aug. 1710, leaving son John, who grad. at H. C. 1735,
the ecoentrick Judge Tyng, of Tyngsborough, Ms., who d. 7 April,
1797, ce. 93; 2. Eleazar, who grad. at H. C. 171d, for many years
a magistrate and colonel of the Middlesex regiment, who d. in 1783,
aged 93. ||* WILLIAM, a merchant of Boston, and brother of the
first Edward Tyng, waa admitted freeman 1638, became member of
the ar. co. 1638, its ensign in 1640, captain of the military company
of Braintree 1644, representative of Boston 1639, and the eight suc-
ceeding years^ and treasurer of the colony from 1640 to 1644. He
d. 18 Jan. 1653, leaving an estate of <£3774. 14. 4. His wife Jane
d. 3 Oct. 1653. Five daughters are named in the records. Mather,
in the Magnalia, i. 139, gives his name as an assistant in 1643, but
it appears that he never sustained that office. Savage, ii. Winth.
Hist. N. E. 99.
UFFORD, THOMAS, Roxbury, was admitted freeman 1633,
went to Springfield, and was among the earliest settlers. This name
is Uffot in the colony records, but Sprague [Hi-st. discourse, 1835,
p. 14] spells it Ufford. His descendants are in Trumbull, and other
towns in Connecticut. Ufford is the name of a place . in Suffolk,
Eng., which was the seat of Robert de Ufford, the earl of Suffolk.
UNDERBILL, ||»JOHN, a captain, came to N. E. in 1630, waa
admitted freeman in 1631, and resided first at Boston, from whence
he went to Dover. He was a representative firom Boston at the first
general court in 1634, and a member of the ar. co. in 1637, and
was engaged in the Pequot war. He went to Connecticut, and set-
tled at Stamford, which he represented in the general court at New-'
Haven, in 1643; removed to Flushing, on L. I., in 1646, from thence
to Oyster-Bay, and was a delegate from that place to the assembly
held at Hempstead by Gov. Nicolls. Captain Underbill died, it is
supposed, in 1673, at Oyster-Bay. His descendants still remain on
Long-Island, and are respectable. Most of them, says Mr. Wood,
have '* exchanged the warlike habiliments of their ancestor for the
Qruaker habit." His posterity may also be in New-Hampshire,
where the name exists. Wood, Hist. Long-Island, 76.
UNDERWOOD, JOSEPH, Hingham 1637. JOSEPH, Water-
town, perhaps the preceding was admitted fi'eeman 1645, d. 16 Feb.
1677. His wife d. 31 March, 1668. MARTIN, Watertown, was
admitted fi-eeman 1634. *THOMAS, Hingham, freeman 1637,
was representative in 1637 and 1648. WILLIAM, Concord 1639,
freeman 1650, was one of the first settlers of Chelmsford.
UP HAM, *JOHN, Weymouth, freeman 1635, was a representa-
tive in 1636. His son John was b. 5 June, 1640. NATHANIEL,
Maiden, fireeman 1653. Rev. Edward Upham, H. €. 1734, a na-
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UPHAM. VANE.
live of Maiden, was probably a descendant. A lieutenant Upham
died in Boston of wounds he received in the capture of Narraganset
Fort, 19 Dec. 1675. [Hubbard, Indian Wars.] John Upham, of
Charlestown, d. 25 Nov. 1677, and another John Upham d. there of
small Pox in 1678. Phinehas Upham d. at Maiden, in Oct. 1676.
Twelve of the name had grad. at Harv. and Dart, in 1828, of whom
five have been clergymen.
UPSALL, IINICHOLAS, Boston, member of the church, was
admitted freeman 1631 ; member of the ar. oo. 1637. He was ap-
prehended Oct. 1656 for reproaching the magistrates and espousing
the cause of the duakers, fined <£20, and banished the colony. He
went to Plymouth, but returned, and d. 20 Aug. 1666. His son
Experience was b. 1640. He had several daughters. Hutchinson,
i. Hist. Mass. 183. Snow, Hist. Boston. Whitman, Sketch Ar.
Co. 13. The name is sometimes spelled Upshall. RICHARD,
was on a jury, 28 Sept. 1630, to view the body of Austin Bratcher.
URAN, JOHN, was of New-Hampshire in 1686.
USHER, II^HEZEKIAH, Cambridge, freeman 1639, removed to
Boston, a. 1646, was a member of the ar. co. 1638, representative
for Billerica 1671, 1672, and 1673, and d. in May, 1676. T<vo
sons were b. at Cambridge, Hezekiah, in June, 1639, d. at Lynn,
11 July, 1697; buried in Boston ; and John, who d. an infant, in
Sept. 1643. John, 2d, of the name, was born in Boston in 1648.
By a 2d wife, Elizabeth, daughter of Rev. Z. Symmes, he had
Zachariah, b. in 1654. His 3d wife, Mary, survived him. |t||JOHN,
lieutenant-gpvernour of New-Hampshire, son of the preceding, was
b. in Boston, 27 April, 1648, was admitted freeman in 1673, and
was a bookseller and stationer. He was a member of the ar. co.
1673 ; afterwards a colonel, and in 1687 one of Sir Edmund An-
dros' council. He was appointed lieutenant-governour of N. H.
1692, was in office a. five years, re-appointed in 1702 under Govern-
our Dudley. He removed from Portsmouth to Med ford, and there
d. 5 Sept. 1726, sb. 78. His son John grad. at H. C. in 1719 ; was
a minister and d. 30 April, 1775, aged 76 [Winthrop], leaving a
son John, who grad. at H. C. 1743, was the Episcopal minister of
Bristol, R.'I. where he d. July, 1804, aged a. 81.
UTLEY, SAMUEL, Scituate 1657. 2 Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc.
iv. 241. This name is in Massachusetts.
VALENTINE, JOHN, Boston, was admitted freeman 1675.
VANE, {♦HENRY, the eldest son of Sir Henry Vane, was bom
in 1612, was educated at Westminster school and Magdalen-Hall,
Oxford. He came to N. E. after having been to Gene\^, and ar-
rived at Boston, in 1635 ; was admitted freeman 1636, and elected
assistant and governour the same year. In 1637, he was chosen
representative for Boston, and soon afler returned to England, and
joined the party against King Charles the I. Afler the restoration
he was tried for high treason, and was beheaded on Tower-hill, 14
June, 1662, aged 50, leaving an only son Christopher, who was cre-
attid baron Barnard by king William, and who is ancestor of the
present Darlington family.
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YAN^UREN. VENNER.
VAN^ZUREN, CASPER, wa» a Dutch miAister oa Long-*
Island prior to 1677. Wood, Hist. L. I. 29.
VARNEY, HUMPHREY, Dover 1664, m. Sarah Storer, 2
March, 1664, and had, Peter, h. 29 Marcii 1665; John, b. 14 Aug.
1666; Joseph, h. 8 Oct. 1667; Abigail, b. 1669. WILUAM,
Salem, died a. 1654
VARNUM, GEORGE, Ipawich 1635, died a. 1649. SAMUEL,
came, it is said, from Wales, or the west part of England, and set-
tled in Ipswich before 1649, removed to Dracutt, where he had two
sons killed bj the Indians in 1676. Hubbard. He m. Sarah Lang-
ton, and had 5 sons, three of whom had families: 1. Thomas, b. in
Ipswich, m. a Jewett, and had sons, Samuel and Thomas, and one
daughter; 2. John, who m. Dolly Prescott, of Groton, and left sons,
John, Abraham, Jonas, and James, and 3 daughters; 3. Joseph,
who had sons, Joseph, Samuel, and John. The late Hon. Joseph
Bradley Varnum, many years in Congress from Massachusetts, and
^aker of the house of representatives, was descended from Joseph.
VASSALL, {WILLIAM, came to N. E. as early as 1630, and
soon returned, but came back, says Hubbard, in 1635, and settled at
Scituate, from whence he went to Barbadoes in the West Indies,
and there died in 1655. 2 Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. iv. 240. Savage,
iL Wintbrop, 260. The historian of duincy supposes the Major
Vassall, who came from the West Indies and settled in that town,
to have, been a son of the assistant above named. Lewis, John and
William Vassall, H. C. 1728, 1732, and 1733, were sons of Major
Vassall. JOHN, Scituate, a lieutenant in 1657, was (irobably the
son of the preceding. 2 Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. iv. 244.
VAUGHAN, GEORGE, Portsmouth 1631, left the country in
August, 1634. Savage, i. Winthrop, 423. GEORGE, Scituate
1656. Coffin. WILLIAM, one of the founders of the Baptist
church in Newport 1644. | WILLI AM, one of the principal men
in Portsmouth and one of the first counsellors of the province of N.
H., was admitted freeman 1669. Much may be found of him in the
first vol. of Belknap's Hist. N. H. He d. in 1719. He m. Margar-
et, daughter of Richard Cutt, 8 Dec. 1668, and had, 1. Eleanor, b.
1670; 2. Mary, b. 1672; 3. Cutt, b. 9 March, 1674; 4. George, b,
13 April, 1676, grad. at H. C. 1696, was lieutenant-go v. of N. H. ;
m. Elizabeth Eliot, 9 Jan. 1701, and had Sarah; William, H. C.
1722, the projector of the Louisburg expedition ; Margaret ; George ;
Elizabeth ; and Eliot, who d. at Portsmouth, 1 July, 1758 ; 5. Brid-
get ; b. 1678 ; 6. Margaret, b. 1680 ; 7. Abigail, 1683 ; 8. Eliza-
beth, b. 1686. Margaret, wife of Major Vaughan, d. 22 Jan. 1691,
VEAZEY, ROBERT, was an early proprietor of Watertown,
There was a Veazey or Vesey at Pascataqua in 1632, named by
Prince, ii. Annals, 70. The name continues in the vicinity of Ports-
mouth. WILLIAM, Braintree 1646, had sons, William, b. 1647;
Solomon, b. 1650 ; Samuel, b. 1656.
VENNER, (ARTHUR, Rhode-Island, a captain, and aflcoatant
in 1672. (See Fenner.) ||TH0MAS, a wine-coopmr, Salem,
was admitted to the church, 25 Feb. 1637, freeman 1638,. membef
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VENNER. VOSR
of the ar. co. 1645, when he probably lived in Boston. He return-
ed to England, and became a preacher to a sect, called fifth mon-
archy men, who raised an insurrection, which was suppressed by the
civil power, when Venner, with twelve of his followers, who declar-
ed themselves invulnerable, was executed in Jan. 1661. His son
Thomas was baptized in Salem, 16 May, 1641. Lempriere, Felt.
VEREIN, JOSHUA, accompanied Roger Williams to Rhode-
Island in 1636. HILLIARD, Salem, d. 20 Dec. 1683, aged 63.
His wife was Mary Conant. Felt, Annals, 275. PHILIP, came
from Salisbury, England, settled in Salem : freeman 1635 ; became
a quaker, was tried and imprisoned. Hutchinson, i. Mass. 187.
Savage, i. Winthrop, 283. PHILIP, Salem, son of the preceding^
was admitted to the church, 3 Jan. 1641, freeman same year.
Felt.
VERMAES, BENJAMIN, Massachusetts, freeman 1642. Sav-
age, ii. Winthrop, 372.
VERY, THOMAS, Gloucester 1647, was born a. 1626. This
name is found in several parts of Essex county.
VIALL, or VYALL, JOHN, weaver, Boston 1639, freeman
1641, had a son Joseph, b. in 1654. This name still exists in Ma»»
sachusetts
VICKERY, SETH, Hull, was admitted freeman in 1680. This
name has been in New-Hampshire within a few years.
VINALL, JOHN, and STEPHEN, were of Scituate, a. 1640.
2 Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. iv. 240. Coffin.
VINCENT, HUMPHREY, Cambridge 1634, removed to Ips-
wich, and received a grant of land in 1638 ; d. 5 Dec. 1664. JOHN,
Lynn, removed to Sandwich 1637. Lewis. WILLIAM, Salem
1637, freeman 1643, was, with his wife, member of the church
1650 ; removed to Gloucester and was one of the selectmen.
VINES, RICHARD, came to N. E. before 1615, [Belknap, i.
Biog. 354] under Gorges, but failed in effecting a settlement at that
time. He was appointed governour of the plantation at Saco^ 2
Sept. 1639. Savage, ii. Winthrop, Index. He went to Barbadoes.
Two of his letters to Gov. Winthrop, dated there in 1648, are in
H utchinson. Coll. 222—224.
VINSON, THOMAS, one of the first four settlers of Martin's
Vineyard. Coffin.
VOSE, RICHARD, Dorchester 1635, removed to Windsor, a.
1636. Thomas Vose was of Dorchester in 1661. ROBERT, free-
man 1666, may be the Robert Vose, whom the family tradition re-
ports to have come from Lancashire, England, and settled on a fiu'm
m that part of Dorchester, now Milton, which is still in possession
of the name and family. Several of his descendants have been dis-
tinguished for their merit as military officers, and 7 of the name
have grad. at the N. E. colleges. Hon. Roger Vose, H. C. 1790,
of Wdpole, N. H. was a senator of the N. H. legislature, and rep-
resented the Sute 4 years in Congress, from 1813 to 1817. Hon.
John Vose, D. C. 17d5, senator in the N. H. legislature, and an
eminent instructor, is a descendant from this famJy.
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WADDELL. WAKE.
WADDELL, WILLIAM, was one of Samuel Gorton's company
1643. Savage, ii. WiDthrop, 148.
WADE, * JONATHAN, Ipswich, freeman 1634, one of the first
settlers ; representative 1669 and probably 1681 and 1682 ; d. 1684.
Susanna, his wife, d. 29 Nov. 1678. His sons were, Jonathan, who
d. 1688 ; Nathaniel, and Thomas. Thomas, a colonel, m. Eliza-
beth Cogswell 1670, lived in Ipswich, and d. 4 Oct. 1696, whose
sons were, Jonathan, Thomas, Nathaniel, and William. William
was killed at sea, 3 April, 1697. NATHANIEL, Ipswich, son of
the preceding, was a major, and resided also in Medford. He m.
Mercy, daughter of Gov. Bradstreet, in 1673, and had children,
Nathaniel, Mercy, Jonathan, Samuel, Ann, Dorothy, and Dudley.
He d. 28 Nov. 1707. NICHOLAS, Scituate 1638. 2 Coll. Mass.
Hist Soc. iv. 240. RICHARD, Lynn, freeman 1637, removed to
Sandwich 1637. Lewis.
WADLEIGH, JROBERT, Exeter, was one of the provincial
counsellors in 1684. ii. Belknap, App'x. Joseph, John, and Ro-
bert Wadleigh, three brothers, of Exeter^ were presented by the
grand jury in a bill charging them, with several others, with high
treason in 1683. i. Belknap, 158. This name is sometimes spell-
ed Wadley.
WADSWORTH, CHRISTOPHER, was one of the early set-
tiers of Duxbury. 2 Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. vii. 138. x. 58, 67, 69.
Thirteen of the name had grad. at Harv. and Yale in 1828. JJOHN,
Connecticut, elected magistrate or assistant in 1679, perhaps was
the decided and resolute captain, mentioned by Trumbull, i. 390 —
393 and Holmes, ii. 449. SAMUEL, a captain, of Milton, free-
man 1668, was killed by the Indians, 18 April, 1676, with Lieut.
Sharp and 26 soldiers, and, with his companions, was buried at Sud-
bury, where there is a monument to his memory, placed there by
his son. Rev. Benjamin Wadsworth, H. C. 1690, minister of the
first church in Boston, and president of H. C, who died 17 March,
1737, 8B. 68. Alden, i. Coll. Ep. 46. WILLIAM, Cambridge 1632,
went to Connecticut, and probably settled at Hartford. I. Mather,
Relation, d&c. 43. Hubbard. Trumbull.
WAINWRIGHT, FRANCIS, Ipswich 1648, freeman 1671, d.
at Salem, 19 May, 1692. Francis Wainwright, perhaps his son,
grad. at H. C. 1686, was a merchant in Ipswich, a magistrate, and
colonel of the militia, and d. 3 Aug. 1711. A Francis Wainwright
graduated at Harvard College in 1707, and four John Wainwrights
grad. there in 1709, 1711, 1734, and 1742. THOMAS, was an
inhabitant of Dorchester in 1659.
WAITE; GAMALIEL, Boston 1637, d. 9 Dec. 1685, aged 87.
He had a son Samuel, b. 1641. ♦JOHN, Maiden, freeman 1665,
representative from 1666 to 1684, was speaker of the house in 1684.
IIRETURN, member of the ar. co. in 1662. ||RICHARD, a tai-
lor, of Boston, was a member of the church in 1633 ; freeman 1637,
member of the ar. co. 1638; probably went to Watertown, where
John and Thomas, sons of Richard Waite, were b. in 1639 and 164L
WAKE, WILLIAM, Salem, died a. 1654. Felt.
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WAKEFIELD. WALDRON.
WAKEFIELD, WILLIAM, Hampton, was admitted freeman
1638. JOHN, d. in Boston 1703, se. 63. ||SAMU£L, nrembeir of
«r. CO. 1676.
WAKELEY, THOMAS, Hingham 1635, freeman 1636, piobt^
t>ly at Casco-^Bay 1665, and the same, wlio, with his wife, son^
tiaughter*in-Iaw, and two grandchildren, was there murdered by the
Indians in 1675. I. Mather, Hist. Phillip's War, 13.
WAKEMAN, JOHN, was treasurer of NewwHaven colony 1656.
Trumbull, i. Hist. Conn. 227. *SAMU£L, Cambridge, freeman
1632, representative 1635^ was a proprietor of Dorchester, removed
to Hartford, was a member of the church, and was probably killed
at Providence^ one of the Bahama Islands, in 1641. Wibthrop, ii
Hist. N. E. 33. Rev. Jabez W^keman, H. C. 1697, was minister
«f Newark, N. J., and d. 8 Oct. 1705, jb. 26.
WAKING, THOMAS, Massachusetts, freeman 1660.
WALCOT, WILLIAM, Salem 1637, appears to have removed
to Providence. This name appears to be different from Weloott,
formerly pronounced Woolcott, and still retaining this pronuneiadoii
in some parts of N. £. The graduates of this name at H. C. are,
&muel Walcot 1698 ; Robert Folger Walcutt, and Samuel Baker
Walcott. Thomas Walcut, of Boston, was one of the earliest stu*
dents at D. C, and <Mie of the foanders of the Mass. Historical
Society.
WALDERNE, EDWARD, Ipswich 1648. Felt.
WALDO, CORNELIUS, Ipswich 1654, removed to Cheitosibrd,
was a deacon of the church, and d. 8 June, 1701. CORNELIUS,
eon of the preceding, was probably one of the founders of the church
a:t Dunstable, 16 Dec. 1685, and a representative in 1689. Corne*
Has Waldo, perhaps his son, was a merchant, of Boston, Jind was
the grandfather of Hon. Daniel Waldo, of Worcester. One of the
Waldo family went to North-Bridge water, Mass., and from thence
to Pomfret, Conn. Nine of the name had grad. at the N. E. col-
leges in 1826. *JOHN, Chelmsford 1675, son of Deacon Waldo,
was representative at the May session 1669 for Dunstable.
WALDRON, ALEXANDER, Dover, a relation of Major Wal-
dron, d. 7 June, 1676. Those under this name have it often spell-
ed Waldren and Waldem. RALPH, Boston, d. in Barbafdoes, 29
Nov. 1653. j:*RICHARD, came from Somersetshire, England, a.
1635, and settled at Dover, which he represented in the general
court at Boston 22 years, commencing with 1654 ; was speaker of
the house from 1666 to 1666, 1673, 1679, and part of 1674. He
was a captain, and afterwards major of the military forces ; was
one of the first counsellors of the province of N. H. 1680, and pres-
ident in 1681, on the death of John Cutt. He was killed by the
Indians 27 June, 1689, in their attack on Dover, when he was a.
80 years old. His children, by two wives, one of whom was Ann,
were, 1. Paul, who d. in Algiers, a. 1669; 2. Timothy, who died
while a student at H. C. ; 3. Richard (see next article) ; 4. Elea-
zar, b. 1665; 5. Elizabeth, b. 1666; 6. Mary, 1668; 7. Esther;
8. Mary. The sons, excepting Richard, d. wiUiout issue. Two of
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WALDRON. WALKER.
the daughters m. Rev« Joseph Gernsfa and liis brother John Gerrislik
The Waldroo family is supposed, in a letter from Rev. John Wal-
rond, of Ottery, in Engiand, to Rev. William WaMron, of Bostotii
penes me, to be desended from an ancient family in Devonshire^ the
seat of which was ;gpanted by the crown of England to Richard Wal-
erand, a. the year 11^, and to prove the identity of the names, the
writer cites Skinner's iEtymologicon Lingus Anglicanee as follows :
" WaiaraDd, olim Prsenomen, nunc CognomeD, ab Anglo-Sax. Wal^
jwoft, volvere, et Rand, et Scutum, volvere scutum, i. e. Ciypeuna
hue illuc circttoiagit. Wtddron autem Cognomen contractutn est^
a JValaroitd,*' ;{*RICHARD, son of the preceding, was born ia
1650, lived in Portsmouth, which he represented at Boston in 1691.
He was appointed a counsellor of N. H. in 1681 ; was chief justice
of the court of common pleas ; judge of probate ; chief military
officer of N. H. many years, and died 30 Nov. 1730, aged 80. By ~
has first wife, who died 1662, a daughter of President Cutt, he had
one child^ Samuel, who died an infant ; by his 2d, Eleanor (born 5
March, 1669, d. Sept. 1727), daughter of Major William Vaaghan,
he had, J. Richard, k 21 Feb. 1694, grad. at H. C. 1712, m. £3ia-
abeth Westbrook, was a judge, counsellor, secretary of the province^
&ther of Thomas Westbrook Waldron^ also a counsellor, and colo-
nel, who was grandfether of Maj. Richard Russel Waldron, of Port&>
mouth ; 2. Margaret, b. 1695 ; 3. William, b. 4 August, 1697, grad.
at H. C. 1717, was ordained over the brick church in Middle Street^
Boston, 23 May, 1722 ; and d. 20 Sept. 1727, ae. 30, leaving issue ;
4. Anna, born 27 Aug. 1698, m. Rev. Henry Rutst, of Stra&ara, a.
1719, d. 1734 . 5. Aingail, b. 28 July, 1704, m. Judge Nathaniel
Saltonstall, about 1726, died 1735, aged 31 ; a Eleanor, b. 1706.
•WILLIAM, brother of Major Richard Waldron, was admitted froei-
man 1640, lived in Dover, which he represented in 1646, and was
drowned at Kennebunk, in Sept. 1647. Winthrop, ii. Hist. N. £.
27a
WALES, NATHANIEL, Dorchester, 1636, perhaps the same
who d* in Boston,' 4 Dec. 1661, leaving a son Nathaniel, who died
there 10 May, 1662.
WALFORD, JEREMIAH, Pascataqua 1631, Adams, Annals
Portsmouth. He, or perhaps a son of the same name, was living in
1688. JJOHN, was a counsellor of New-Hampshire in 1602,
THOMAS, Charlestown 1628 [Hutch, i. Hist. Mass. 17], went to
Portsmoud), a. 1631, was one of the grand jury in 1654, died about
1667, leaving an estate of .£1433. 3. 8. His wife Jane, b. in 1597,
was accused of, and prosecuted for, witchcraft. Belknap, i. N. H. 47.
Savage, i. Winthrop, 53. Coll. N. H. Hist. Soc. i.
WALKER, AUGUSTINE, Charlestown, was admitted freeman
in 1641, and d. before 1655, leaving sons, Samuel, b. 11 Oc^t 1642 ;
Augustine, b. 14 Dec. 1646; James, b. 25 July, 1648, and perhaps
others. He was the ancestor of Rev. Timothy Walker, H. C. 1725,
the first minister of Concord, N. H., whose son Hon. Timothy
WalkCT, b. in Concord, 26 June, 1737, grad. at H. €, 1756, was
father of Charles Walker, esq. k 25 Sept. 1765, grad. at H. C. 1789.
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WALKER. WALLINGFORD.
the eldest son pf whom is Charles Walker, esq. of the city of New-
York, who grad. at H. C. 1818. HENRY, Gloucester 1664.
]|ISAAG, a merchant, of Boston, member of the ar. co. 1644, was
admitted freeman 1646, had sons, Nicholas, Stephen, and perhaps
Isaac member of ar. co. 1676. JOHN, Boston, freeman 1634, may
have been the one who removed early to Rhode-Island. * JOSEPH,
Billerica, freeman 1678, was representative at the two sessions in
May, 1689. ^RICHARD, Lynn 1630, freeman 1634, was repre-
sentative in 1640 and 1641; was an ensign in 1631, afterwards
a lieat. and captain. His children were Richard and Samuel who
settled in Reading, and Tabitha and Elizabeth. He died in May,
1687, SB. 95. [Lewis.] He or his son Richard represented Reading
in 1648, 1649, 1650, and 1660, and was the leader of the military band
in that town in 1644, mentioned by Johnson, [Hist. N. E. 192]
without any Christan name, which Whitman [Hist. Sketch of Ar.
Co.] erroneously supplies with Robert. There was a Richard Walk-
er in Boston in 1638. ROBERT, Boston, freeman 1634, was liv-
ing 10 June, 1684, at the age of 78. [Snow.] He had sons, born
in Boston, Zechariah, 1637; John, 1639 ; Jacob, 1644; Joseph, b.
1646;^Eliakim, 1652; John, 2d, b. 1656. SAMUEL, Exeter
1639. *SAMUEL, Woburn, probably the son of Augustine, b. in
1642, was admitted freeman 1674, and elected representative at the
two sessions in May, 1689. SHUBAEL, a captain, of Lynn 1650,
d. Jan. 1689. THOMAS, Boston, d. 11 Aug. 1659, leaving sons,
John, b. 1652, and Samuel, b. 1656. WILLIAM, Hingham 1636.
Lincoln, Hist. Hingham, 45. ZECHARIAH, perhaps the son of
Robert Walker, and born at Boston 1637, was, according to Ma-
ther, aducated at H. C. but died not graduate ; was the minister of
Jamaica, L. I. from 1663 to 1668; removed to Stratford, Conn, and
settled over the 2d church ; from thence to Woodbury, where he
was settled 3 May, 1670.
WALL, JAMES, Pascataqua 1631, was one of the witnesses
to the Indian deed to Wheelwright, April, 1638. This name is er-
roneously printed Comall, in Coll. of N. H. Hist. Socciety i. 148.
JOHN, Exeter 1639, Portsmouth 1640. Belknap, i. Hist. N. H. 47.
WALLEN, RALPH, Plymouth 1638. Davis, Morton's Memo.
380,385.
WALLER, CHRISTOPHER, Ipswich, was born a. 1620.
Coffin. MATTHEW, Salem 1637, removed to Providence.
WALLEY, llfJOHN, was member of the ar. co. 1671, its cap-
tain in 1679, one of Sir Edmund Andros' council 1687 ; one of the
council under the charter of William and Mary 1692, a judge of the
supreme court of Mass. ; commander of the expedition against Can-
ada, 1690, the journal of which by him may be found in Hutchin-
son, i. Hist. Mass. 470. He d. 11 Jan. 1712, m. 68. THOMAS,
minister of Barnstable, was ejected for his nonconformity, and came
from London in 1663, and died at Barnstable, 24 March, 1679,
s. 61.
WALUNGFORD, JOHN, Dover 1687. Hon. Thomas Wal-
lingford, a judge of the Superiour court of New-Hampshire, who d.
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WALLINGTON. WARD.
4 August, 1771, ©. 75, was probably a descendant. Ge6rge W.
Wallingford, H. C. 1795, d. in 1823.
WALLINGTON, NICHOLAS, Newbury 1655, was admitted
freeman 1670.
WALLIS, •NICHOLAS, Ipswich, representative 1691. NA-
THANIEL, Casco 1665. Hutch. Coll. 398. ROBERT, Ipswich
1638. THOMAS, Massachusetts, freeman 1643.
WALSINGHAM, FRANCIS JOHNSON, Marblehead 1648.
Dana, Hist. Disburse, 7.
WALTER, NEHEMIAH, the fourth minister of Roxbury,
was b. in Ireland, Dec. 1663 ; came with his father to N. £. about
1680 ; grad. at H. C. 1684, was ordained as colleague with Re?.
John Eliot, 17 Oct. 1688, d. 17 Sept. 1750, in his 87th year. His
son Thomas, H. C. 1713, was his colleague from 19 Oct. 1718 to
his death, 10 Jan. 1725.
WALTHAM, HENRY, Weymouth, a merchant, d. 29 January,
1659. He had a brother Thomas. WILLIAM, Weymouth, d.
about 1641.
WALTON, GEORGE, Exeter 1639, was living at Great^lsland
K;few-Castle, N. H.] in Dec. 1685, at the age of 70. Mather, ii.
agnalia, 393. Adams, Annals Portsmouth, 398. Col. Shadrach
Walton, of New-Castle, probably his descendant, was appointed a
counsellor in 1716, and d. 3 Oct. 1741, s. 83. Benjamin Walton,
H. C. 1729, was, according to W. Winthrop, son of Col. Walton.
HENRY, Boston, aad sons. Job and Adam, b. there in 1639 and
1643. He was probably one of the grantees named in the Indian
deed of South-Hampton, L. I. 1640, JOHN, spelled also WoUen
and Wotten, was of Portsmouth 1640. (See Wotten.) ♦THO-
MAS, Weymouth, was represeutative in 1636. WILLIAM, min-
ister at Marblehead, came from Seaton, in Devonshire, England,
settled in Hingham 1635, was admitted freeman 1636, went to Mar-*
blehead as early as 1639, where he was the minister nearly thirty
years, though not ordained. He d. in Aug. or Sept. 1668. [Dana.]
Mather [i. Magnalia, 215] calls him William Waltham, and the er-
rour is adopted where we should hardly expect to find it [Winthrop,
ii. Hist. N. E. 390] ; but where so many errours are corrected, and
omissions are supplied, the perpetuating the mistake can be readily
excused. Mr. Walton's children, b. at Seaton, were, John, born 6
April, 1627; Elizabeth, b. 1629; Martha, b. 1632; in Hingham,
Nathaniel was b. 3 March, 1636 ; in Marblehead, Samuel, Wn 5
June, 1639; Josiah, 20 Dec. 1641 ; Mary, b. 14 May, 1644.
WALVER, ABRAHAM, received his degree at H. C. 1647,
went to England, and was settled in the ministry in the county
where his friends resided. Hutchinson, i. Hist. Mass. 108.
WANNERTON, THOMAS, Pascataqua and Maine, was a cap-
tain, and was killed in 1644, as may be seen in ii. Winthrop, p. 177.
WANTON, EDWARD, Scituate 1640.
WARD, JANDREW, Watertown, freeman 1634, accompaincd
the first settlers to Connecticut, and was elected a magistrate in
1636. He may be the same who was early in Springfield, and ^ho
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WARDl wardhall.
went with Rev. Richard Denton, to Hempstead, L. I.^ m 1643L
Trumbull. Wood, Hist. Sketch L. I. 41k Twenty'^ur persons of
the name of Waid, had grad. at the N. £. colleges ia 1826. BEN-
JAMIN, a ship-carpenter of Boston, was member of the church
there 1640, and admitted ^eeman 1641. HENRY, was a proprie-
tor of Lancaster in 1654. WiDard. JAMES, a graduate of H. G.
1645, went to England ; had a fellowship at MauSiii College, Ox*
ford, and receiired the degree of M. B. Irom that UniTersity. JOHN,
the first minister of Haverhill, was son of Rev. Nathaniel Ward, of
Ipswich, and was b., as Dr. Cotton Mather supposes, at HaTerhill,
England, 5 Nov. 1606 ; came to N. E. as early as 1639, admitted
freeman 1643, settled at Haverhill 1645, and d. there, 27 Dec. 1003,
e. 88. His daughters were, Elizabeth, b. 7 April, 1647, m. Hon.
Nathaniel Saltonstall, and Mary, b. 24 Jane, 1649, who, Mr. Cof*
fin says, m. Rev. Benjamin Woodbridge, the clergyman who d. at
Medfiwrd. JOHN, Salem, died a. 1656. Felt. ♦JOHN, Cam-
bridge, that part now Newton, was probably the freeman in 1649.
He was representative in 1689, and about 15 years afterwards. He
m. Hannah, daughter of Edward Jackson, and had 8 sons and 5
daughters. She d. 21 April, 1704, s. 73. The sons were, John,
b. and d. 1654 ; John, 2d, b. 1659 ; William, b. 1664; Richard, b.
1667, who was a representative and deacon, and d. 1739 ; Edward,
b. 1672; Eleazar, b. 1673; Jonathan, b. 1674; Joseph, b. 1677.
The late Col. Joseph Ward, of Newton, was grandson dT Eleazar,
and was Muster Master General and Acting Aid to General Wash-
ington, in the Revoluticmary War. MILES, of the county of Es-
sex, and probably Salem, was admitted freeman 1641, and died a.
1650. NATHANIEL, the first minister of Ipswich, and author
of the '* Simple Gobier of Aggawam," was son of Rev. John Ward,
and was b. at Haverhill, England, in 1570 ; was educated at Cam-
bridge University, and came to N. E. in June, 1634. He was soon
settled at Ipswich, but returned to Enghiad in 1647, and d. at Shen-
field) in Essex, in 1653, aged 83. His son John is noticed above.
One of his daughters married the celebrated Giles Firmin. *OfiA-
DIAH, Sudbury 1654, Marlborough 1662, was a representative
in 1689. ROGER, Massachusetts, was admitted freeman in
1637. *SAMUEL, Sudbury, fi-eeman 1637, was representative in
1637 and 1638. A Samuel Ward d. at Charlestown, 30 August,
1682. THOMAS, an inhabitant of Hampton, came to N. £. as
early as 1630, and was admitted freeman 1635. ^WILLIAM, Sud-
bury, freeman 1643, was representative in 1644, removed to Marl-
borough, where he was one of the first deacons of the church d. a.
1686. His sons were, John, William, Increase, b» 1644, Richard,
Eleazar, and Samuel.
WARDHALL, THOMAS, shoemaker, Boston, member of the
church 1633, was admitted freeman 1635, went to Exeter with Rev.
John Wheelwright in 1638. Belknap, i. Hist. N. H. 36. Sayage,
i. Winthrop, 248. WILLIAM, Boston, was h in 1604, went to
Exeter with the preceding, but probably returned to Boston, as he
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tTARDHALL. WAtERHOUSE.
had 8009 EHakim, Urall, [?] Elihu, Benjaitnin, and Samuel, born
there after 1635. This name is sometimes spelled Wdrdwell,
WARD WELL, SAMUEL, Andover, probably son of the pre-
ceding, was executed for supposed witchcraft in 1692. Margaret,
his widow, d. 1695. Sons, William, Samuel, and Eliakim.
WARE, IIROBERT, member of the ar. co., was admitted fi-ee-
man in 1647. ♦JOHN, Wrentham, freeman 1677, was repiresen-
tative in 1689. SAMUEL, Boston, freeman 1675. ||WILLIAM,
freeman and member of the ar. co. 1643, admitted as townsman of
Boston, 31 Jan. 1653, d. 11 Feb. 1658.
WARHAM, JOHN, one of the' first ministers of Dorchester,
came to N..E. 1630, having been a minister in Exeter, England,
andi with Mr. Maverick, settled at Dorchester in June, 1630, from
whence in 1635, he went with the most of his church to Windsor,
and foi'med the first settlement of that pla(ie, where he d. 1 April,
1670. WILLIAM, Newbury, m. Hannah Adams in 1681.
WARNER, ANDREW, Cambridge 1682, freeman 1634, remov-
ed to Hartford. Hutchinson, i. Mass. 97. DANIEL, Ipswich
1648, perhaps of Hadley in 1662. DAVID, Hatfield, freeman
1673. JOHN, born'a. 1616, was an inhabitant of Ipswich in 1648,
and probaibly went early to Brookfield. Foot, Hist. Serm. 29.
JOHN, Warwick, R. I. was one of Gorton's company 1643, Sav-
age, ii. Winthrop, 147. Nine of the name of Warner had grad. at
Y. C. in 1826.
WARRANT, JOHN, Newbury, d. 1666.
WARREN, ABRAHAM, Salem 1637, perhaps also of Ipswich
in 1648, and died a. 1654. Felt. ARTHUR, Weymouth, had
sons, Arthur, b. 1639, and Jacob, b. 26 Oct. 1642. JACOB,
Chelmsford 1666. JOHN, Watertown, came to N. E. 1630, free-
man 1631, d. la Dec. 1667. JOHN, Massachusetts, freeman
1645. JOSEPH, Plymouth 1623. NATHANIEL, Plymouth
1644. PETER, Boston, had sons, John and Benjamin, b. in 1661
and 1665. RICHARD, one of the first pilgrims at Plymouth 1620,
d. 1628. Elizabeth, his widow, d. 1673, aged a. 90.
WARRINER, WILLIAM, freeman 1638, was of Springfield,
^rague. Hist. Discourse? He d. 2 June, 1676.
WASHBURN, JOHN, son of John, was one of the proprietors
of Bridgewater, 1645, d. before 1670. His sons were, John, Samu-
el, Joseph, Thomas, and Jonathan, whose descendants have extend-
ed to the remotest parts of the country. 2 Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc.
vii. 149, 153. Mr. Wood [MS Letter] names William, John, and
Daniel Washburn among the first settlers of Oyster*-Bay.
WASS, THOMAS, Newbury, d. 18 Aug. 1691.
WATERHOUSE, ||DAVID, Boston, was member of the ar. co.
1679, and one of the council of safety 1689. Hutchinson, i. Hist.
N. H. 337. RICHARD, Portsmouth 1674, had sons, by his wife
Sarah, Richard, b. 19 April, 1674; Samuel,, b. 9 May, 1676, and
perhaps others. He is the ancestor of the distinguished philanthro-
pist, B. Waterhouse, M. D., of Cambridge, the father of vaccina-
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WATERHQUSE. WEBB.
tioD in this country. THOMAS, Dorchester, admitted member of
the church 1639, and freeman 1640.
WATERMAN, RICHARD, Salem 1637, removed to Rhode-
Island, and was one of the founders of the first Baptist church in
America. Benedict. Savage, ii. Winthrop, 148. Felt. THO-
MAS, Roxbury 1641, d. 22 Jan. 1676. His wife d. 1641.
WATERS, GEORGE, Salem, was admitted to the church, 23
May, 1641. LAWRENCE, Watertown 1635; Lancaster 1647,
freeman 1666, had sons, Lawrence, b. 1635, died at Boston 1693;
Stephen, born 1642 ; Daniel ; Joseph, and Ephraim. Willard.
RICHARD, a gunsmith, of Salem, was admitted freeman 1639.
MERRY, ship-carpenter, Boston, member of church 1632.
WATKINS, IITHOMAS, Boston 1652, member of the ar. co.
1666, d. 16 Dec. 1689.
WATSON, CALEB, son of John, was b. at Roxbury in June,
1641, grad. at H. C. 1661, admitted freeman 1666, was a school-
master at Hartford, Conn. GEORGE, Plymouth colony, came over
before 1631, and d. 1689, aged a. 89. JOHN, Roxbury, freeman
1645, may have removed to Cambridge, where John, Abraham, and
Isaac, sons of John and Rebecca Watson, wefe b. in 1653, 1661,
and 1669. ROBERT, Windsor 1640. 1 Coll. Ma^s. Hist. Soc.
V. 168. THOMAS, Salem, was admitted to the church 1639, and
freeman 1640.
WATTLES, WILLIAM. Ipswich 1648.
WATTS, HENRY, Casco-Bay 1658 ; d. afler 1684. [Geo. Fol-
som, MS letter.] There was a Judge Watts of Chelsea, whose son
Samuel grad. at H. C. in 1738, and d. in Dec. 1791, ». 76. ^
WAY, AARON, Massachusetts, freeman 1651. Calef, More
Wonders, 123. GEORGE, Boston 1651, perhaps also of Provi-
dence. HENRY, one of the principal inhabitants of Dorches-
ter, d. in 1667, ae. 84. Savage, i. Winthrop, 43, 59, 79. ii. 177.
IIRICHARD, Dorchester, was a member of the ar. co. 1642, its
lieutenant in 1671. RICHARD, was of Scituate in 1651.
WEARE, t*NATHANIEL, Newbury 1656, where several of
his children were born ; removed to Hampton, where he was one
of the principal men ; admitted freeman 1666, representative of
Hampton ; agent for the province of N. H. to England in the time
of Cranficld ; was a counsellor of N. H. 1692, d. 13 May, 1718, ».
87. His son Peter, b, at Newbury, 15 Nov. 1660, was ancestor of
Hon. Meshech Weare, H. C. 1735, the first president of N. H. in
1784 ; chief justice, and one of the most valuable men in the State,
who d. 1786, ae. 72. *PETER, Kittery, freeman 1652, was repre-
sentative at the 2d session 1660. PETER, Newbury, died 12 Oct.
1653.
WEBB, CHRISTOPHER, Braintree, freeman 1645, was town
clerk ; removed to Billerica, where several of his children were b.
His sons, John and Peter were born in Braintree in 1655 and 1657.
GEORGE, New-Hampshire, and probably Dover, a. 1649. HEN-
RY, a mercer, came from Salisbury, England, with his wife Dow-
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WEBB. WEEDEN.
sabel, and settled at Boston, where he was a member of the church,
and admitted freeman in 1638. His daughter Margaret m. Jacob
Sheafe. ||*JOHN, freeman 1636, member of the ar. co. 1643, re-
moved to Chelmsford, which he represented in 1663, 1664, and
1665 ; was a captain, and a man of wealth ; died 16 Oct. 1669.
His name appears in records, John Webb, alias Evered. He sold
his seat in Chelmsford to Edward Colburn. See Hubbard's Indian
Wars. JOHN, was one of the first proprietors of Northampton
1653. JOSEPH, Boston 1675. JOSEPH, minister of Fairfield,
grad. at H. C. 1684, was ordained 15 August, 1694, over the 1st
church, d. 19 Sept. 1732. Rev. Joseph Webb, Y. C. 1715, was
probably his son. RICHARD, Cambridge, freeman 1632, d. at
Boston, 2 July, 1659. WILLIAM, Boston, freeman 1636, d. Dec.
1644. There was a William Webb early at Weymouth.
WEBBER, THOMAS, Boston, was a mariner, and a member of
the church in 1643. Two persons of this name, brothers, Samuel
and John, grad. at'Harv. and Dart, in 1784 and 1792. The first,
born at Byfield, 13 Jan. 1760, was president of H. C. from 1806 to
his death, 17 July, 1810 ; the last born 11 May, 1762, grad. at D.
C. 1792, and was the minister of Sandown and Campton, N. H.
Samuel Webber, M. D., of Charlestown, N. H*, son of President
Webber, grad. at H. C. 1815.
WEBSTER, §tJOHN, was a magistrate of Connecticut in 1639,
and elected governour in 1656. Within about four years afterwards,
he, with three others of the name, Mr. Russell, the minister of
Weathersfield, and other associates, purchased the territory included
in the towns of Hadley, Hatfield, Gran by, and Amherst, Mass., and
removed thither. He died at Hadley 1665. See Lord's Lempriere,
Holmes' and Trumbull. The great lexicographer of our country is
one of his descendants. JOHN, came from Ipswich, England, as
early as 1634, and settled at Ipswich ; was probably the one admit-
ted fireeman 1635, and died before 1647, leaving a widow, who m.
John Emery, and 4 sons : John, b. 1632, m. Anna Batt 1653 ; Ste-
phen, Nathan, Israel, and 4 daughters. The sons of Nathan were,
John, Nathan, and Samuel, of whom Samuel was father of Rev.
Samuel Webster, D. D., of Salisbury, b. 1718, grad. 1737, died 18
Jan. 1796. It is sufficient honour for this family that it includes
among its descendants one of the greatest orators and statesmen of
this or any other country. JOHN, who is styled a brewer, was of
Portsmouth, and a constable. He d. in 1662. There was a John
Webster, a blacksmith, early at Haverhill. JOHN, a baker, was
admitted inhabitant of Salem, 29 Jan. 1638. THOMAS, an early
inhabitant of Hartford, is mentioned by Trumbull, i. Hist. Conn. 69.
Perhaps he was of Hadley in 1665. THOMAS, Massachusetts, was
admitted fi-eeman 1644. WILLIAM, of Hadley, was born in
1617.
WEDGE WOOD, JOHN, Ipswich 1637, was a soldier in the Pe-
quotwar, in which he was wounded. Hubbard, Ind. Wars, 130.
WEED, JONAS. Massachusetts, was admitted freeman in 1631.
WEEDEN, EDWARD, Boston, had a son Samuel born 1644.
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SAMUEL and WILLIAM, were among the founders of the first
3aptist church in Newport 1644. Benedict.
WEEKS, AMMIEL, Dorchester admitted to the church 1656,
and freeman 1657. GEORGE, Dorchester, admitted to the churcl^
1639, freeman 1640, d. 27 Oct. 1659. JOHN, Plymouth 1637.
Davis, Morton's Memo. LEONARD, Portsmouth 1667, had sons,
John, b. 14 June, 1668 ; Samuel, b. 1670 ; Joseph, b. 1671 ; Josh-
ua, born 1674 ; and daughters Mary and Margaret. Rev. Joshua
Wingate Weeks, H. C. 1758, Clement Weeks, H. C. 1772, and
William Weeks, H. C. 1775, were of this famUy. THOMAS,
Oyster-Bay. L. I. 1654.
WELBYfc, GEORGE, Lynn 1638. Lewis.
WELCH, THOMAS, is named by TrumbuU, i. 107, as one of
the pillars of Milford, 1639.
WELD, DANIEL, Roxbury, freeman 1641^ had sons, Benjamin,
^. 1655 ; Daniel, b. 1659, and perhaps others ; d. 22 July, 1666, s.
81. A Daniel Weld, of Braintree, had a ds^ughter, b. in 1643, and
his wife Alice d. in 1647. EDMUND, son of Rev. Thomas Weld,
grad. at H. C. 1650 ; went to Ireland, and was the minister of In-
niskean, and d. 2 March, 1668, se. 50. Alden. * JOSEPH, a cap-
tain, and five years representative of Roxbury fi-om 1636, was bro-
ther of Rev. Thomas Weld. He was admitted fi-eeman 1636, and
died 7 Oct. 1646, leaving a widow Barbary, who m. Anthony Stod-
dard, of Boston. Capt. Weld's children were, Edmund, b. 14 July,
1636; Sarah, b. 31 Dec. 1640; Daniel, b. 18 Sept. 1642, grad. at
H. C. 1661, and was a physician in Salem ; Joseph, bap. and died
1645 ; Thomas, who died 1649. JOHN, Roxbury, was b. in Eng-
land, 28 Oct. 1623, came to N. E., says a family MS, in 1638, ad-
mitted fireeman 1650, d. 20 Sept. 1691, e. 68. His wife was Mar-
garet, b. 2 April, 1629, d. 13 Sept. 1692, s. 63. Their children
were. John, b. 1649 ; Joseph, b. and d. 1650 ; Joseph, 2d, b. 1653 ;
Margaret Elizabeth, Abigail, Esther, and Hannah. THOMAS,
one of the first Ministers of Roxbury, arrived in N. E. 5 June, 1632,
and soon afi.er admitted freeman, and settled at Roxbury. He re-
turned to England with Rev. Hugh Peters in 1641, and is stated in
the Roxbury church records to have d. in London in 1661 [see AIt
den] ; but as his name appears in Calamy among the ejected min-
isters in 1662, he may have lived to a later period, and certainly so
if he wrote the verses in the Magnalia on Rev. Samuel Danforth,
1674, which have frequently been ascribed to him. The writer of
those verses, however, is conjectured to have been his grandson.
Rev. Thomas Weld, of Dunstable. The children of Mr. Weld
were, John, a minister of Riton, in the county of Durham [Calamy,
ii. Account, 291] ; Edmund, H. C. 1650; Thomas, the following,
and perhaps some born in England. *THOMAS, Roxbury, son of
the preceding, was admitted freeman 1654, was representative 1676
and 1677, d. 17. Jan. 1683. His children were, Samuel ; Thomas,
b. 1653 ; Samuel, 2d, b. 1655 ; John, b. 1657, d. 1686; Edmund,
born 1659 ; Daniel ; Dorothy ; Joseph, born 1666 ; and Marga-
ret. THOMAS, the first minister of Dunstable, N. H., son of
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the preceding, was baptized at Roxbury, 12 June, 1653 ; grad. at
H. C. 1671 ; freeman 1675, was ordained 1685; d. 9 June, 1702,
in bis 50th year. His 1st wife, Elizabeth, died 19 July, 1687, and
their son Thoinas grad. at H. C. 1701, and d. at Roxbury, 21 July,
Ji704, «. 20. His 2d wife, Majry Savage, d. at Attleborough, Mass.,
9 June, 1731, as. 64, and their son Habijah, b. 2 Sept. 1702, grad,
at H. C. 1723, was .ordained at Attleborough, 1 Oct. 1727, died 14
May, 1782, in his 80th year. Samuel, another son of Rev. Thomas
Weld, d. at Roxbury, 17 Jan. 1717.
WELDEN, ROBERT, Charlestown, whom Gov. Winthrop calls
" a hopeful young gentleman and experienced seedier," d. 16 Feb.
1631. Christopher Welden, sen. d. at Charlestown, 29 April, 1668.
See Dudley's Letter to Countess of Lincoln.
WELLINGTON, ROGER, Watertown 1642, had sons, John,
b. 1638 ; Joseph, b. 1643. Descendants are in Mass. and N. H.
WELLMAN, THOMAS. Lynn 1650, who d. 1672, had a son
Isaac and 4 daughters. Two of the name have been clergymen in
New-Hampshire.
WELLS, EDWARD, Boston 1645. Those under this name are
sometimes written Welles, GEORGE, Lynn, removed to South-
Hampton, L. L, a. 1640. ISAAC, Scituate 1638 [2 Coll. Mass.
Hist. Soc. iv. 240] ; removed to Barnstable. Coffin. |JOHN,
Connecticut, was elected magistrate in 1658. One of this name
was of Hadley in 1665. RICHARD, born a. 1607, was of Lynn
1637, and probably one of the proprietors of Salisbury 1640.
§ftTHOMAS, Connecticut, magistrate 1637, deputy-governour
1656, governour 1658 and 1659, d. 1660. THOMAS, Ipswich,
freeman 1637, perhaps the member of the ar. co. 1644, d. in Oct.
1666, leaving a widow, and sons, John and Thomas, the latter b»
11 Jan. 1646. Felt. THOMAS, the arst minister of Amesbury,
received a degree from H. C, in the catalogue of which, his name
is placed under 1669; was ordained in 1672, and d. 10 July, 1734,
s. 86. WILLIAM, Lynn 1644, perhaps one of the first settlers of
South-Old, L. I. See Wood's Sketch, 34.
WELSH, THOMAS, Cambridge 1645, perhaps d. at Charles-
town, 31 Dec. 1680. Rev. Nathaniel Welsh, as spelled by Mather,
although recent catalogues have it Welch, grad. at H. C. 1687, was
the minister of Enfield, Conn, and d. before 1699.
WENBOURN, WILLIAM, Boston 1638, freeman 1644, had a
son John, b. in 1638. Snow, Hist. Boston, 137. He removed to
Exeter, and was chosen clerk of the writs there in 1643.
WENDELL, THOMAS, Boston, d. 10 Dec. 1646. THOMAS,
was of Ipswich in 1648. Jacob Wendell, the first graduate of the
name at H. C, d. 7 Sept. 1761, m 71.
WENSLEY, *SAMUEL, Salisbury, freeman 1639, rep. 1642,
1645, and 1653, d. 2 June, 1663. His wife d. 2 June, 1649.
RICHARD, grad. at H. C, 1684, and d. before 1699.
WENTWORTH, PAUL, Rowley, had sons, William, Sylva-
nus, Paul, Ebenezer, Aaron, Moses, and 5 daughters, who were all
baptized 16 May, }696. Two other sons, Benjamin and Edward,
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WENTWORTH. WETHERELL.
were baptized in 1699 and 1701. He and his wife were dismissed
from the church at Rowley to New-London in June, 1707. SAM-
UEL, Portsmouth or Dover, was son of William Wentwbrth, and
was born a. 1642, admitted freeman 1676, and by Mary, his wife,
had, 1. Samuel, b. 9 April, 1666; 2. Parnel, a daughter, b. 21 Oct.
1669; 3. John, b. 16 June, 1672; 4. Mary, b. 5 Feb. 1674; 5.
Ebenezer, b. 9 April, 1677 ; 6. Dorothy, b. 27 June, 1680; 7. Ben-
ning, b. ^ June, 1682. John, the 2d son, was lieutenant-governor
of the province of N. H. from 1717 to 1729, and d. 12 Dec. 1730,
ae. 58, having had 16 children, one of whom was Benning Went-
worth, H. C. 1715, the governour of N. H. from 1741 to 1767, and
who d. 14 Oct. 1770, ae. 75. John Wentworth, H. C. 1755, was
his nephew, and succeeded him as governour of N. H. ; was after-
wards governour of Nova-Scotia, and d. at Halifax, 8 April, 1820,
ffi. 84. WILLIAM, the great ancestor of the Wentworths of N. E.
was of Exeter in 1639, and was a ruling elder of the church in Do-
ver, and living in 1689, at more than 80 years of age. Belknap.
WERMALL, JOSEPH, Scituate between 1633 and 1657. 2
Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. iv. 240.
WEST, EDWARD, Lynn 1637. FRANCIS, was an early set-
tier of Duxbury, and a proprietor of Bridgewater 1645. 2 Coll. Mass.
Hist. Soc. x. Index. *JOHN, Salem, was admitted to the church
1648, was representative of Beverly in 1677, where, and at Salem,
the name has been common. Thomas West was of Salem or Bev-
erly in 1665. JOHN, Saco 1652. MATTHEW, Lynn 1636,
freeman 1637. NATHANIEL, Newport, was one of the found-
ers of the first Baptist church 1644. ROBERT R., Providence
1641. 3 Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. i. 4. •THOMAS, freeman 1668,
representative 1686 of Hadley.
WESTBROOK, JOHN, Portsmouth 1665.
WESTCOTT, STUKELEY, Salem 1639, removed to Rhode-
Island, and was one of the founders of the first Baptist church.
Stukely Westcott, one of his descendants, is now a magistrate in
Vermont.
WESTGATE, ||[JOHN,] was a member of the ar. co. 1641, and
perhaps the same mentioned by Hutchinson, i. Hist. Mass. 209.
WESTMORELAND, JAMES, Boston 1652.
WESTON, EDMUND, Duxbury. a. 1645. 2 Coll. Mass. Hist.
Soc. X. 57. *FRANCIS, Salem, freeman 1633, representative at
the first general court 1634 , removed to Providence, and was one
of Ahe founders of the first Baptist church in America. Savage.
Benedict. Felt. THOMAS, commenced the first settlement, in
May, 1622, of Weymouth, a town, although the settlement was
suspended a short time, probably the oldest in Massachusetts, out of
Plymouth colony. He was a " merchant of good account in Lon-
don." He returned to England, and d. at Bristol.
WESTWOOD, tWILLIAM, Cambridge 1632, freeman 1635,
removed with Rev. Mr. Hooker and his company to Hartford, and
was one of the first magistrates in 1636.
WETHERELL, JOHN, Cambridge 1636, a proprietor of Wa-
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WETHERELL. WHEELER.
tertown, was admitted freeman in 1642. WILLIAM, Cambridge
1635, removed to Scituate, and was the first minister of the second
church from Sept. 1645, until his death, 9 April, 1684, at the age
of a. 84. He wrote several elegies, and one so late as 1679, on Mrs.
Sarah Gushing, of Scituate.
WEYBORNE, THOMAS. (See Wyborne.)
WEYMOUTH, ROBERT, came from Dartmouth in England
and settled at Kittery as early as 1652. Edward Weymouth, per-
haps his son, m. Hester Hodsdon in 1663.
WHALE, PHILEMON, Sudbury, freeman 1648, d. 21 Feb.
1676. II WILLI AM, was member of the ar. co. 1645.
WH ALLEY, EDWARD, one of Cromwell's lieutenant-generals,
and one of the judges who sentenced to death Charles I, came to
N. E. in July, 1660, and resided in various places. Stiles, Hist, of
the Judges. Hutchinson. Holmes. Worcester Magazine.
WHARTON, EDWARD, Salem, 1663, was one of the early
quakers. Felt. JRIC HARD, one of Sir Edmund Andros' coun-
cil in 1687, belonged to Massachusetts. Hutch, i. Mass. 317.
WHEAT, MOSES, Concord, was admitted freeman 1642. He
came over with his brother Joshua in 1636 ; and d. in May, 1700,
having had children, Samuel, b. 1641 ; Hannah, Joshua, Remem-
brance, John, and Sarah. His brother returned to England. Shat-
tuck, MS Hist.
WHEATLEY, JOHN, whose name is spelled Whetley in colo-
ny records, was admitted freeman 1642. LIONEL, of Boston in
1653, freeman 1673, had a son Samuel b. there.
WHEELER, DAVID, Hampton and Newbury, had sons, John,
Jonathan, and Nathan, born in Newbury in 1653, 1657, and 1659.
EPHRAIM, Concord, freeman 1638, had a son Isaac b. in 1638.
Thirty distinct families of the Wheelers were living in Concord be-
tween 1650 and 1680, and their descendants are scattered through
N. E. Shattuck, MS letter. GEORGE, Concord 1636, freeman
1641, d. 1684, leaving issue. A George Wheeler of Newbury had
a son Ephraim, b. in 1662. A John Wheeler died at Newbury in
1670. ISAAC, Charlestown, freeman 1643, may have been the
same who went to Fairfield in 1644. JOHN, Concord, removed
with the first settlers to Fairfield in September, 1644. Shattuck.
JOSEPH, Concord, born a. 1600, freeman 1640, may be the same
who died in Newbury, 13 Oct. 1659. JOSHUA, Concord 1636.
OBADIAH, Concord 1638, freeman 1641, d. 27 Oct 1671, ae. 63.
His sons, John and Samuel, were b. 1641 and 1644. RICHARD,
freeman 1669. ROGER, Boston, d. 7 Dec. 1661. THOMAS,
Boston, freeman 1637, was a tailor, and d. 16 May, 1653. Sons,
Jonathan and Joseph, were b. 1637 and 1640. THOMAS, Con-
cord, perhaps the freeman of 1641, was a captain in Philip's war,
and accompained Capt. Edward Hutchinson in his expedition into
the Nipmug country in 1675, and published a narrative of its
events, which has been republished in Coll. N. H. Hist. Soc. vol. ii.
He d. 10 Dec: 1676. THOMAS, the freeman of 1642, was proba-
bly of Lynn. ♦TIMOTHY, Concord, a captain, was admitted
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WHEELER. WIfllPK
freeman 1640, representative from 1663 to 1672, excepting 1667
and 1670, d. 30 July, 1687, ae. 86. Son Timothy, freeman 1675.
Twenty-six of the ns^me had grad. at the N. E. colleges in 1826.
WHEELOCK, ♦RALPH, was born in Shropshire, England, in
1600, was educated at Clare-Hall, in Cambridge [M'Clure and
Parish] ; came to N. E. 1637, settled in Dedham, and was one of
the founders of the church 1 638 ; admitted freeman same year ;
was of Medfield when that became a separate town, which he rep-
resented in 1653, 1663, 1664, 1666, and 1667, and where he d. in
Nov. 1688, SB. 84. He had sons, Benjamin, b. in 1639 ; Samuel,
in 1642, and Eleazar, who settled in Medfield and afterwards in
Mendon, and who was grandfather of Rev. Eleazar "Wheelock, D.
D., the founder and first president of Dartmouth College. Presi-
dent W. was b. 1711, d. 1779. John Wheelock, LL. D., his son
and successor, was b. 1754, d. 4 April, 1817, aged 63.
WHEELWRIGHT, JOHN, the founder and first minister of
Exeter, came from Lincolnshire, and arrived at Boston, 26 May,
1636; preached at Boston and Braintree ; was banished fi*om the
Mass. colony ; went to Exeter in 1638 ; to Wells, about 1642 ; to
Hampton 1647 ; was in England in 1658, returned after the resto^
ration, and succeeded Rev. Wm. Worcester, at Salisbury, and there
d. 15 Nov. 1679. His last will, made 25 May, 1679, names his son
Samuel, son-in-law Edward Rishworth, his grandchildren Edward
Lyde, Mary White, Mary Maverick, William, Thomas, and Jacob
Bradbury, to whom he gave his estate in Lincolnshire, England, in
Maine, and other places. *SAMUEL, Wells, son of the preceding,
was representative in 1671. THOMAS, Kittery, brother of the
preceding, was admitted freeman in 1652.
WHIPPLE, ♦JOHN, Ipswich, freeman 1640, was representative
1640, and six years afterwards ; a deacon of the churcl^, and died
30 June, 1669, leaving a widow, Jennett, a son John, and daugh-
ters, Susanna Worth, Mary Stone, Sarah Goodhue, and the wife of
Anthony Potter. Sarah, his 1st wife, died 14 June, 1658. Felt.
Johnson, Hist. N. E. 110. ♦JOHN, Ipswich, freeman 1668, a cap-
tain, was the representative of Ipswich 1674, 1679, and 1682.
MATTHEW, Ipswich, brother of Deacon John Whipple, received
a grant of land in 1638, and died a. 1647. His sons were, John ;
Matthew ; Joseph, fi^eeman 1674, d. 11 May, 1699 ; his daughters
were, Mary, Ann, and Elizabeth. Felt.
WHITSON, JOHN, Scituate 1637. 2 Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc.
iv. 241. Coffin.
WHITCOMB, JOHN, Lancaster 1654, d. 24 Sept. 1662, leav-
ing a son John. JOHN, Scituate 1644. JAMES, Boston 1665.
WHITE, ANTHONY, Sudbury 1640. The name of White
prevails in every state and nearly every county in N. E. No less
than 70. had grad. at the various colleges in 1826, 22 of whom have
been clergymen. DANIEL, Hadley 1662. Coffin. EDWARD,
Dorchester, fireeman 1636. EDWARD, Roxbury, freeman 1647,
had sons, Zachary and Samuel, and perhaps John, a freeman in
1684. EMANUEL, Watertown, a. 1640. Winthrop, ii. Hist. N.
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WH1TE> WHITING.
E. 346. HUMPHREY, was a grantee of Ipawich in 1640. W.
Gibbs. JOHN, Cambridge 1632, was admitted freeman 1633.
There was a John White at Salem in 1636, one at Lynn in 1630»
and one at Kittery in 1652 ; one at Lancaster in 1653, who was fa-
ther of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson, whose Narrative of Removes is
well known. *JOHN, Hadley, freeman 1666, was the representa^
tive in 1669. NA THANIEL, a graduate of H. C. in 1646, was
pastor of a church at Bermuda, from thence removed to Nevis, in the
West-Indies, where he was living when Johnson wrote. NICHO-
LAS, Massachusetts, freeman 1642. PAUL, Newbury, a captain,
was b, in 1581, and d. 20 July, 1670, ae. 89. RESOLVED, bro-
ther of Peregrine White, was of Scituate 1638 ; had sons, William,
b. 1642 ; John, b. 1644 ; Samuel, b. 1646 ; Josiah, b. 1654. Cof-
fin. RICHARD, Sudbury 1640. Shattuck. ♦SAMUEL, Wey-
mouth, son of Thomas White, was born 1642, admitted freeman
1666, representative 1679. He m. Mary Dyer, and d. without issue.
Shattuck. ♦THOMAS, Weymouth, was representative 1636 and
1637, died Aug. 1679, leaving children, 1. Joseph, of Mendon ; 2.
Samuel, above ; 3. Thomas, of Braintree ; 4. Hannah, who m. John
Baxter ; 5. Ebenezer, b. 1648, d. 24 Aug. 1703, who was father of
Ebenezer White, H. C. 1692, minister of Bridge-Hampton, L. I.,
who d. 1756, ». 84. Shattuck. THOMAS, Sudbury 1640. Shat-
tuck. A Thomas White d. at Charlestown, 30 May, 1664. WIL-
LIAM, one of the first pilgrims of Plymouth 1620, d. 21 Feb. 1621.
His widow Susanna m. Edward Winslow. His son Peregrine, the
first born after the arrival of the pilgrims, and, as Prince supposes,
[i. Annals, 76] '' the first of European extract in N. England," was
born in Nov. 1620, and died at Marshfield, 22 July, 1704, aged S3.
His grandson Joseph d. at Yarmouth in 1782, se. 78. WILLIAM,
b. 1610, came to N. E. and settled at Ipswich, a. 1635 ; from whence
went to Newbury, and finally settled at Haverhill, where he d. 1690,
ffi. 80, leaving children, whose descendants are exceedingly nume-
rous. WILLIAM, Boston, had a son William b. in 1646.
WHITEHAND, GEORGE, Massachusetts, freeman 1634.
WHITEHEAD, DANIEL, one of the purchasers of Huntington,
L. I. 1653. Wood, 44. SAMUEL, Cambridge 1635.
WHITEHOUSE, Thomas, New-Hampshire 1688, where the
name still continues.
WHITEFIELD, JOHN, Dorchester 1684, removed with the
first settlers to Windsor in 1635 or 1636.
WHITFIELD, HENRY, the first minister of Guilford, was
the only son of an opulent lawyer, and was born 1597, came from
Okely, in Surry, to N. E. in 1639, and was one of the founders of
the church and town of Guilford. He returned to England, and d.
in the ministry, in the city of Winchester. He had 10 children,
several of whom settled in this country.
WHITING, JOHN, son of William Whiting, of Connecticut,
grad. at H. C. 1653, was a preacher several yetirs at Salem, having
previously been a member of the church at Cambridge. He remov-
ed to Hartford, and was settled over the first church, accordkig to
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WHITING.
Trumball, in 1669, and died, according to Trumbul), in 1709. Bat
Mather [ii. Magnalia, 23] marks his death before 1699. His first
wife was Sybil, daughter of deacon Edward Collins, and his children
were, Sybil ; John ; William. William was baptized at Cambridge,
19 Feb. 1660, lived in Connecticut, was a major. He probably had
other children, who were born at Hartford, where Rev. Mr. Dodd,
in East-Haven Register, says he m. Phebe, daughter of Thomas
Grigson, the gentleman lost at sea in 1646. JOHN, the graduate
at H. C. of 1657, was son of Rev. Samuel Whiting, of Lynn, and
probably went to England before 1661, where he was settled in the
ministry at Leverton, in Lincolnshire. He d. before 1699, as Ma*
ther says, " a godly conformist." JOHN, the second minister of
Lancaster, was son of Rev. Samuel Whiting, of Billerica, in which
place he was b. 1 Aug. 1664, grad. at H. C. 1685 ; was ord. d^Dec.
1691, and was ''shot and scalped about noon," 11 Sept. 1697, by
the Indians [S. Sewall], ae. 33, leaving a widow, Alice. JOSEPH,
minister of Lynn and South-Hampton, was son of Rev. Samuel
Whiting, of Lynn, where he was born 1641 ; grad. at H. C. 1661 ;
was assistant to his father several years, and ordained his successor
in 1680 ; was admitted freeman 1671 ; went to South-Hampton, L.
I., about 1682, and was the minister there until his death, 7 April,
1723, 9. 82. His first wife was Sarah, daughter of Hon. Thomas
Dan forth, dep. gov. ; his last was Rebecca, who d. 21 April, 1723,
s. 63. Samuel, his eldest son was b. 3 July, 1674, and John, his
6th son (the intermediate ones dying in infancy), was b. at Lynn,
20 June, 1681, grad. at H. C. 1700, was ordained at Concord, 14
May, 1712, d. 4 May, 1752, se. 71. His wife was Mary, daughter
of Rev. John Cotton, of Hampton, and his children were, as furnish-
ed by Mr. Shattuck, 1. Mary, b. 13 August, 1713, m. Rev. Daniel
Rogers, of Lyttleton; 2. John, b. 1714, d. 1716; 3. John, 2d, born
25 June, 1716, d. at Royalston, Ms., leaving a numerous &mily ; 4.
Thomas, b. 25 June, 1717, was a merchant in Boston, and father
of Thomas Whiting, H. C. 1775, who d. at Concord, 28 Sept. 1820,
8B. 72; 5. Anne, b. 1718, d. 1719 ; 6. Sarah, b. 7 Sept. 1719; 7.
Stephen, b.6 Aug. 1720 ; 8. Elizabeth, who m. Rev. Samuel Web-
ster, D. D., of Salisbury. {JOSEPH, Connecticut, believed to be
a son of Captain William Whiting, was elected an assistant in 1683.
NATHANIEL, Dedham, freeman 1642, had a son Nathaniel, born
26 Sept. 1644. He was the ancestor of Rev. Samuel Whiting, H.
C. 1769, the first minister of Rockingham, Vermont, who 'was b. at
Wrentham, Ms., 28 Jan. 1750, d. May, 1819. SAMUEL, minis-
ter of Lynn, was son of John Whiting, Mayor of Boston, in Lincoln-
shire, where he was b. 20 Nov. 1597 ; was a minister at Skirbick
and other places. He arrived at Boston, 26 May, 1636, was soon
admitted freeman, and the same year settled at Lynn, where he d.
11 Dec. 1679, ae. 82. By his first wife he had two sons, who, with
their mother, d. in England, and one daughter, who m. Mr. Weld,
probably Thomas, the son of Rev. Thomas Weld. By his 2d wife»
Elizabeth (who d. 3 March, 1678), a daughter of the Right Hon.
Oliver St. John, he had, Samuel, John, Joseph, and two daughters,
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WHITING. WHITNEY.
one of whom m. Rev. Jeremiah Hobart. SAMUEL, the first minis-
ter of fiillerica, was son of the preceding, and was b. in Eng. a. 1633,
grad. at H. C. 1653, admitted freeman 1656 ; settled in Billerfca
1658, was ordained there 11 Nov. 1663, d. 28 Feb. 1713. He m.
Dorcas Chester, 12 Nov. 1656. She d. 15 Feb. 1713. Their chii-
dren were, 1. Elizabeth, b. 1660, m. Rev. Thomas Clark ; 2. Sam-
uel, b. 19 Jan. 1662, d. 14 March, 1715; ae. 51, leaving issue; 3.
John, before noticed ; 4. Oliver, b. 8 Nov. 1665, m. Anna, daugh-
ter of Capt. Jonathan Danforth, 22 Jan. 1690, had 9 children, and
d. 22 Dec. 1736, ae. 71, having been many years a magistrate ; 5.
Dorothy ; 6. Joseph, b. 7 Feb. 1669, perhaps the graduate at H C.
1690, d. 6 Sept. 1701, se. 32 ; 7. James ; S. Eunice ; 9. Benjamin ;
10. Benjamin ; the four last dying in infancy. Samuel, the fourth
son of Oliver, was b. 6 Sept. 1702, was a deacon in Billerica, and
died 4 Nov. 1772, being grandfather of the present Deacon Samuel
Whiting, who has sustained the offices of magistrate and represen-
tative of Billerica many years. J WILLI AM, Hartford, one of the
most respectable of the early settlers, was elected a magistrate in
1642, and the next year was chosen treasurer of the Conn, colony.
Hutchinson, i. Hist. Mass. 98, gives one of this name. See Trum-
bull, and I. Mather, Indian Wars, from 1614 to 1675.
WHITMAN, JOHN, the common ancestor of a large posterity
in Massachusetts, came to N. E. as early as 1638, when be was ad-
mitted freeman ; abode a short time at Charlestown, from whence
he went to Weymouth, where he d. quite advanced, a. 1692. His
children were Thomas ; John, freeman 1681 ; Abiah, freeman 1681 ;
Zechariah, and Sarah Jones, Mary wife of John Pratt, Elizabeth,
who m. John Green, Hannah, who m. Stephen French, and Judith
King. MS Communication of Hon. Nahum Mitchell. ROBERT,
Ipswich 1666. 2 Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. viii. 107. THOMAS,
Weymouth, son of John Whitman, was admitted freeman in May,
1653, m. Abigail, daughter of Nicholas Byram, 22 Nov. 1656, and
had sons, John, Ebenezer, Nicholas. VALENTINE, an inter-
pretor 1654. Hutch. Coll. 267. He was probably of Providence.
ZECHARIAH, one of the pillars of Milford 1639. Trumbull,
Hist. Conn. 107. ZECHARIAH, minister of Hull, is supposed
IMS Genealogy] to have been son of John Whitman, of Weymouth,
le grad. at H. C. 1668, was ordained 13 Sept. 1670, freeman
1673 ; d. 5 Nov. 1726. His age has been variously stated by differ-
ent authorities, at 78, 82, and 85.
WHITMARSH, JOHN, Weymouth, had sons, Increase and Si-
mon, b. in 1655 and 1661. NICHOLAS, an inhabitant of Wey-
mouth in 1659, was freeman 1681. Ezra Whitmarsh grad. at H.
C. 1723.
WHITNEY, JOHN, Watertown, freeman 1636, d. I June,
1673, ©. 84. Eleanor, his wife, d. 11 May, 1659. His sons were,
John, Thomas, Jonathan, Richard, Benjamin, and Joshua, all of
whom settled in Watertown, and had families. Shattuck, MS letter.
JOHN, Watertown, son of the preceding, was admitted freeman
1647, and had sons John, b. 1635; Caleb, b. 1640; Benjamin, bt
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WHITNEY. WIGGIN
1643; John, 2d, b 1644. RICHARD, brother of the preceding,
was admitted freeman 1651. STEPHEN, was one of the first set*
tiers of Huntington, L. I. Wood.
WHITON, JAMES, Hingham 1647; Lancaster 1644, freematt
1660, had sons, James and Matthew, b. in i649 and 1659.
WHITRED, THOMAS and WILLIAM, inhabitants of Ipswich
in 1648. Felt.
WHITTIMORE, LAWRENCE, Roxbury, freeman 1637, d.
24 Nov. 1644. His wife d. 1642. FRANCIS, Cambridge 1653,
bad sons, Francis ; John, b. 1 Oct. 1654 ; Samuel, b. 1 May, 1658.
WHITTIER, THOMAS, Haverhill, was admitted freeman
1666. John G. Whittier, the poet of Haverhill, is perhaps a de-
scendant.
WHITTINGHAM, |tJOHN, Ipswich 1637, member of the ar.
CO. 1638, a son of Baruch, and grandson of Rev. William Whttting*
ham, the famous puritan minister in the reign of dueen Mary, who,
it is said, m. a daughter of John Calvin, came to N. £. with his
mother from Lincolnshire. He m. a daughter of William Hubbard,
and d. between 1644 and 1651, [Johnson] and probably in 1648,
leaving sons, Richard, and William, and 3 daughters. WILLIAM,
son of the preceding, grad. at H. C. 1660, m. a daughter of J. Law-
rence, and d. of small pox in London, leaving children, 1. Richard,
H. C. 1689, who went to London, and enjoyed the family estate in
Lincolnshire ; 2. William, who d. in the West Indies ; 3 Mary, wko
m. Gov. Saltonstall ; 4. Elizabeth, who m. Samuel Appleton and af-
terwards Rev. Edward Payson ; 5. Martha, who m. Rev. John Rog«
ers. Alden, Coll. Epitaphs.
WHITTINGTON, ||RICHARD, member of the ar. co. 1646.
EDWARD, who bad a grant of land in Andover in 1673. Abbot
WHITTREDGE, NATHANIEL, Lynn 1637.
WHITWELL, SAMUEL, Boston 1652, had a son Samuel, b. in
1653.
WICKENDEN, WILLIAM, Salem, removed to Providence
1639, became a Baptist minister, and d. 23 Feb. 1669. Benedict,
Hist, of Baptists, i. 477.
WICKS, FRANCIS, sometimes Weeks, Salem 1635, went to
Rhode-Island with Roger Williams. John Wicks is mentioned by
Savage, ii. Winthrop, 148. Rev. Thomas S. Wickes grad. at Y. C.
in 1814.
WICOM, *DANIEL, a captain, was of Rowley, and represen-
tative in 1689 and 1690, and d. 15 April, 1700, s. 65.
WIGGIN, j:*THOMAS, an active and useful man in the first
settlement of N. H., came to N. E. as early as 1631, was agent or
governour of the upper plantation ; a captain ; resided some time in
Hampton, which he represented in 1645 ; was elected an assistant
from 1650 to 1664. Mr. Coffin gives the year 1667 for the time of
his death. His son Andrew resided in Exeter, m. Ann, daughter of
Goir. Bradstreet in 1659, and had, Thomas, b. 5 March, 1661 ; Si-
mon, b. 17 April, 1664 ; Hannah, b, 10 Aug. 1666 ; Mary, b. 1668,
and probiibly others.
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WI43GLESWORTH. WltKINS.
WIGGLE8WORTH, ilf/Ci/il^i., minister of Maiden, and
a writer of verses of some note, graduated in 1651, at H. C. of which
he was a fellow. He was probably admitted freeman 1680, d. 9
June, 1704, s. 74. Allen puts the time of his death in 1705. His
son Edward, H. C. 1710, and grandson Edward, H. C. 1749, both
D. D'a. were the first and second professors of divinity at H. C. at
which nine of the name had grad. in 1828.
WIGHT, HENRY, Medfield, freeman 1647. Of the six gradu-
fktes of this name at H. C. four were clergymen. THOMAS, Ded-
ham, had sons, Samuel and Ephraim, b. in 1639 and 1645.
WIGLEY, EDWARD, Concord 1666. Shattuck.
WIGNAL, ALEXANDER, Massachusetts, freeman 1631.
WILBORNE, MICHAEL, Boston 1657.
WILGOMB, or WELCOME, RICHARD, was ale-house keeper
at the Isles of Shoals 1683.
WILCOCKSON, WILLIAM, Massachusetts, freeman 1638.
David and David B. Wilcockson grad. at Y, C. in 1744 and 1798.
WILCOX, IIWILLIAM, freeman 1636, member of the ar. co.
1688, d. at Cambridge, ^ Nov. 1653. Nine of the name had grad
at the N. E. colleges in 1828.
WILDBORE, SAMUEL, Boston, freeman 1634, d. 29 Sept.
1656. This name is probably the same with Wilbur,
WIIJ>E, WILLIAM, Rowley 1643, afterwards of Ipswich, died
8. 166S. The name of Wild, Wilde, and Wildes has had 9 gradu*
ates at the N. E. colleges.
WILDER, EDWARD, came as early as 1638 to N. E. with his
mother, a widow, who d. 20 April, 1652, and settled at Hiiigham^
and was admitted freenian 1644. He m. Elizabeth Ames, of Marsh-
fieldy before 1654, and had sons, John, Ephraim, Isaac, and Jabez,
and 4 daughters. He d. 18 Oct. 1690. His widow d. 9 June,
1692. THOMAS, Charlestown, [Benedict, i. Hist. Baptists, 388]
was admitted freeman 1641, became an inhabitant of Lancaster, 1
July, 1659 ; was one of the selectmen, and d. 23 Oct. 1667, leaving
3 BODS, 1. Thomas, b. at Charlestown 1644, d. Aug. 1717„ leaving
sons, JumeSy a colonel, who m. a daughter of Capt. Andrew Gard-
ner, and had sons James and Gardner ; Joseph, who also m. a daugh-
ter of Capt. Gardner, and had sons, Thomas, of Leominster ;; An-
drew ; Joseph, a judge, who d. 20 April, 1776, ae. 59 ; and Caleb,
a colonel ; 2. John, who had sons, John, Thomas, and Ebenezer ;
3. Nathaniel, of Lancaster, who was killed by the Indians in July,^
1704, leaving posterity. The first Joseph was a representative,
chief justice of the court of common pleas 1731 to 1757, judge of
probate from 1739 to 1757, and d. 29 March, 1757, s. 74. Wil-
lard. Hist. Lancaster, 87.
WILKINS, BRAY, bom a. 1610, lived in Lynn 1634, in Salem
1654, and is probably the ancestor of the Wilkins families in the
county of Essex, where Rev. Daniel Wilkins was born, and who grad«
at H. C. 1736, was ordained the first minister of Amherst, N. H.,
23 Sept. 1741, died 11 Feb. 1784, in his 73d year, having had 10
children, of whom John, grad. at H. C. 1764, and died at Athens,
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WILKINSON. WILLARD.
Ohio. John H. Wilkins, H. C. 1818, of Boston, is grandson of
Rev. Mr. Wilkins, of Amherst. There was a Wilkins, who was
admitted a member of Dorchester church in 1640.
-WILKINSON, JOHN, Maiden, d. in Dec. 1675. Ann Wilkin-
son, d. at Billerica, 8 Feb. 1692, «. 94. LAWRENCE, was early
at Providence.
WILLARD, GEORGE, probably first of Cambridge, was of Scit-
uate 1638, from whence he removed. Deborah, and Daniel, his
children, were baptized at Scituate, 14 September 1645, by Rev.
William Wetherell, and Joshua, another child, was baptized 2 No-
vember, 1645. t*SIMON, came from the county of Kent, and re-
sided in Cambridge in 1634, from thence to Concord in 1635, to
Lancaster as early as 1660 ; was of Groton in 1672, and, on the
breaking up of that town in 1676, went to Salem, but d. at Charles-
town, 24 April, 1676. He was early a military officer, and attained
the rank of major, and commanded the forces in Ninigret's and Phi-
lip's wars. He represented Concord 14 years, commencing with
1636, and was elected assistant 22 years, from 1654 to his death.
He m. (1) Mary Sharp, (2) Elizabeth Dunster, sister of President
Dunster, (3)Mary Dunster, and had 9 sons ; Josiah, who settled in
Weathersfieid ; Samuel, minister of Groton, and Boston ; Simon, b.
23 Nov. 1649, a deacon of Salem ; Henry, b. 4 June, 1655, who
lived in Lancaster ; John, b. 15 Jan. 1657, who lived in Concord ;
Daniel, b. 29 Dec. 1650, of Boston ; Joseph, b. 4 Jan. 1660, who
went to England ; Benjamin, of Graflon ; Jonathan, born 14 Dec.
1669, who settled in Sudbury. His daughters were two Elizabeths,
the last the wife of Robert Blood ; Mary, who m. Cyprian Stevens ;
Sarah, who m. Nathaniel Howard ; Hannah, who iti. Capt. Tho-
mas Brintnall ; Mercy, who m. Joshua Edmunds ; Abovehope, and
Dorothy, who d. unmarried. In speaking of the loss of Major Wil-
lard and Richard Russell, Dr. Increase Mather [Indian Wars, 32}
says " the death of a few sucb is as much as if thousands had
fallen." Hubbard calls him that " worthy and experienced soldier,"
and Rev. Mr. Pemberton calls him " a sage patriot in our Israel,
whose wisdom assigned him a seat at the council board, and his
military skill and martial spirit entitled him to the chief place in the
field." A letter from him to the commissioners of the United Col-
onies, 1654, is presented in Hutch. Coll. 263—268. SAMUEL,
author of the "Complete Body of Divinity," the first folio volume
printed in America, minister of Groton and Boston, son of the pre-
ceding, and was b. at Concord, 31 Jan. 1640, grad. at H. C. 1659;
was ordained at Groton, probably in 1663, having begun to preach
there in 1662, from whence he was driven by the Indians, when
that town was burnt, in March, 1676. He was installed pastor of
the Old South church, 31 March, 1678, officiated as vice-president
of H. C. from 6 Sept. 1701 to his death, 12 Sept. 1707, ». 67. He
m. (1) Abigail Sherman, 8 Aug. 1664, whose mother was grand-
daughter of Lord Darcy, Earl of Rivers ; (2) Eunice, daughter of
Edward Tyng, a. 1679. His children were, 1. Abigail, b. 1665 ;
2. Samuel, b. 1668; 3. Mary ; 4. John, b. 8 Sept. 1673, grad. at
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WILLARD. WILLIAMS.
H. C. 1690, settled in Kingston, Jamaica, was father of Rev. Sam-
uel Willard, of Biddeford, Me., who grad. at H. C. 1723, ord. Sept.
30, 1730, d. Oct. 26, 1741, ». 36, whose son. Rev. Joseph Willard,
D. D., LL. D., b. at Bideford, Dec. 29, 1738, grad. at H. C. 1765,
afterwards tator and fellow, was president of H. C. from 1781, to
his death, 25 Sept. 1804 ; 5. Elizabeth ; 6. Simon, who grad at H.
C. 1695 ; 7. Edward, b. 1680 ; 8. Josiah, b. May, 1681, grad. at
H. C. 1698, where he was afler wards a tutor, and was long the sec*
retary of the province of Mass., a counsellor and judge of probate,
and d. 6 Dec. 1756 ; 9. Eunice ; 10. Richard, who was drowned
29 June, 1697, soon after he entered Harv. College ; 11. William ;
12. Margaret; 13. Edward, 2d; 14. Hannah; 15. Sarah; 16 Eu-
nice, 2d ; 17. Sarah, 2d ; 18. Richard, 2d ; 19. Edward, 3d ; 20. one
other ; the last fourteen by his 2d wife. Thirty-four of the name
had grad. at the N. £ colleges in 1828, of whom are six of as many
generations in uninterrupted succession from Maj. Simon Willard.
WILLES, MICHAEL, Dorchester, freeman 1638, one of the
founders of the 2d church in Boston, 1650. This name is spelled
WiUyes on Dorchester church records.
WILLET, HEZEKIAH, Swanzey, was killed by the Indians,
26 June, 1676. Hubbard. FRANCIS. Newbury 1672. fTHO-
MAS, Plymouth colony, came from Leyden as early as 1630 ; was
elected an assistant from 1651 to 1664 ; was the first mayor of New-
York after its conquest by the English, died at Barrington, R. I., 4
August, 1674, ». 64.
WILLEY, ALLEN, husbandman, was admitted member of the
Boston church in 1633.
WILLIAMS, ♦ABRAHAM, was representative of Marlborough
in 1679. One hundred and forty seven of the name of Williams had
grad. in 1825, at the colleges in N. E., New-Jersey, and Union in
New-York. BELSHAZZ AR, Salisbury, d. 1651 . Coffin. DAN-
lEL, one of the first proprietors of Providence. Cofiin. ELEA-
ZAR, Salem, was admitted to the church, 6 Aug. 1637. Felt.
FRANCIS, Portsmouth, came over in 1631, as governour of the
settlement, commenced by Mason and Gorges, and was in N. H. in
1643, but soon after left, and went to Barbadoes. GEORGE, Sa-
lem, freeman 1634, died a. 1654. HENRY, Casco 1665, was
wounded in Saco, 10 Oct. 1676. Hutch. Coll. 398. Hubbard, Ind.
Wars. ||HUGH, Boston, freeman 1642, was a member of the ar.
CO. ♦ISAAC, a captain, was son of Robert Williams, of Roxbury,
where he was b. 1 Sept. 1638, settled in Newton, which he repre-
sented in 1692, 1695, 1697, 1699, 1701, and 1705. He had child-
ren, Isaac; Martha, b. 1663; William, H. C. 1683; Eleazar, who
settled in Stonington. The founder of Williams college descended
from this family. JAMES ^ a preacher at Plymouth, is named by
Savage, ii. Winthrop, 391. JOHN, Scituate 1639. JOHN,
Pascataqua 1631. A John Williams is mentioned by Felt, Annals
Salem, 110. A John^Williams wasof Newbury 1641, where he d.
1674. Another John Williams died in Mass. 1658. JOHN,
ministeir of Deerfield, was son of Deacon Samuel Williams, and was
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WILLIAMS.
b. at Roxbury, 10 Dec. 1664, grad. at H. C. 1683, was ordained 18
Oct. 1688, captured by the Indians, ^ Feb. 1704, when Eunice,
his wife, a daughter of Rev. Eleazar Mather, was killed ; returned
from captivity, and d. 12 June, 1709, ©. 66. 'His sons were, Elea-
»ar, H. C. 1708, minister of Mansfield ; Samuel ; Eliakim ; Ste-
phen, H. C. 1713, minister of Longmeadow ; Warham, H. C. 1719,
minister of Waltham ; John, killed by the Indians; Eliakim, 2d.
John, 2d, a major ; Elijah, and several daughters. ||NATHAN-
lEL, Boston, freeman 1640, member of the church and of the ar.
CO. 1644, had sons Joseph, b. 1641 ; Nathaniel, b. 1642, member
of the ar. co. 1667; John, b. 1644. NICHOLAS, Roxbury, free-
man 1652, d. 27 Aug. 1692. RICHARD, Dorchester, and Boston,
had a son Benjamin, b. 1645. ROBERT, Roxbury, came from
Norwich, in England, was admitted freeman in 1638, and is the
common ancestor of the divines, civilians, and warriors of this name,
who have honoured the country of their birth. His sons were, Sam-
uel, a deacon of Roxbury, freeman 1650, who d. 28 Sept. 1698;
Isaac, already noticed ; Stephen, b.8 Nov. 1640, a captain, who d.
at Roxbury, 15 Feb. 1720, and Thomas, who d. without issue. The
family estate at Roxbury remained in possession of his desc^idants
until 1826. The last possessor of it was Thomas Williams, esq.
counsellor at law, son of Dr. Thomas Williams, H. C. 1757. ROB-
ERT, Boston, freeman 1643, was a member of the church, had a
«on Joseph, b. in 1644. He, or the preceding, was a member of the
ar. CO. 1644. ROBERT, Providence 1639, was a brother of Roger
Williams, of Providence. A Robert Williams was one of the fost
settlers of Oyster-Bay, L. I. 1650. ROGER, was born in Wales
1599, was educated at Oxford, came to N. E. and arrived at Nan-
tasket, 5 Feb. 1631 ; settled at Salem as teaching elder with Rev.
Samuel SkeHon, 12 April, 1631 ; went the same year to Ply^nonth,
where he preached two years, and returned to Salem in 1633, and
was the sole pastor after Mr. Skelton's death. He was banished the
Mass. colony, in Nov. 1635, went to Rhode-Island 1636, and laid
the foundation of that colony, for which he went to England in 1643
for a charter, which he obtained, and landed with it at Boston, in
Sept. 1644 ; was in England again from 1651 to i654, and on his
return was chosen president of the colony, and remained in office
until 1657. This earliest and boldest champion of the rights of all
men " fully to have and enjoy their own judgements and conscien-
ces in matters of religious concernment," d. at Providence in April,
1683, SB. '84. His wife was Mary, and his children were, Mary;
Freeborn ; Providence, b. Sept. 1638, the first of European paren-
tage born in Rhode-Island ; Mercy ; Daniel ; and Joseph, whose
descendants amount to several thousands. Coll. R. I. Hist. Soc. i.
ii. Felt, Annals Salem. Upham, Ded. Sermon, 52. Holmes, i. An-
nals, 411. ROGER, Massachusetts 1630, requested to be made
freeman 19 Oct. 1630. He may have been the early settler oS
Windsor, [1 Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. v. 168] or the member of thear.
CO. in 1647. THOMAS, one of the first pilgrims of Plymouth
1620, died before March, 1621. THOMAS, Boston, freemaii
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WILLIAMS. WILSON.
1631, died a. 1646. He set up the first ferry between Winnisimmet
and Charlestown 1631. Holmes, ii. Annals,2l0. WILLIAM, Sa-
lem, 1637, perhaps a proprietor of Watertown 1641. WILLIAM,
minister of Hatfield, was son of Captain Isaac Williams, of Newton,
and was born a. 1664, grad. at H. C. 1683, and d. 31 August,
1741. He m. (1) Eliza, daughter of Rev. Seaborn Cotton ; (2) a
daughter of Rev. Solomon Stoddard. By the first he had Rev. Wil-
liam Williams, H. C. 1705, minister of Weston, and Rev. Elisha
Williams, H. C. 171 1, the third president of Yale College; by the
2d, Rev. Solomon Williams, H. C. 1719, minister of Lebanon,
Conn, and Hon. Israel Williams, H. C. 1727. He had also 3 daugh-
ters.
WILLIAMSON, MICHAEL, Ipswich 1638.
WILLIS, HENRY, was a volunteer in the Pequot expedition
1636. Those under this head have the name spelled in old records,
WilUs^ Willice^ Willys, Willust, &o. The Connecticut family of
this name has usually written it Wyllys, which see. GEORGE,
Hartford. (See Wyllys.) J-EREMY, Lynn 1637. JOHN,
spelled Willust in colorfy records, was member of the church in
Boston, was admitted freeman in 1632. He was cast away in a
N. E. tempest in returning from Noddle's Island, 21 Nov. 1634^
and perished. Winthrop, i. Hist. N. E. 150, 385. A Mr. Willis
was representative from Lynn at the first general court, 1634, who
is considered by Mr. Savage [ii. Winthrop, Index, 428, John Wil-
les] the same as the preceding. JOHN, one of the proprietors of
Bridgewater, was a representative at the Plymouth court 1657. He
had a brother Nathaniel, also a proprietor of Bridgewater in 1645.
NICHOLAS, Boston, spelled Willust in the colony records, was
admitted freeman 1634. Savage, ii. Winthrop, 216. RICHARD,
Plymouth 1630. ROBERT, an inhabitant of Boston in 1642.
THOMAS, Lynn 1 634, removed to Sandwich 1637. Lewis. WIL-
LIAM, Scituate 1640. 2 Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. iv. 247.
WILLOUGHBY, fJH^FRANCIS, Charlestown, member of the
ar. CO. 1639, freeman 1640, was chosen representative in 1642,
1646, and 1640, assistant 1650, 1651, 1664, deputy-governour 6
years from 1665 to 1671. He d. 4 April, 1671, leaving a wife
Margaret, who, after marrying Capt. Laurence Hammond, d. 2 Feb.
1683. His children were, Hannah, b. 17 May, 1643 ; Nehemiah,
b. 8 June, 1644; Jeremiah, b. 29 July, 1647; Jonathan; William,
-who d. 1678. Gov. Willoughby left an estate of .£4050. 5. 4.
WILLOW, GEORGE, Cambridge, with Jane his wife, was
member of the church. He was living in 1638, at the age of 86.
He had sons, Thomas, b. 1638 ; Stephen, b. 1644, freeman 1665.
WILLS, MICHAEL, Boston, was one of the founders of the 2d
church. THOMAS, freeman 1638, was of Massachusetts where
the name exists.
WILMOT, NICHOLAS, Boston 1657. A Thomas Wilmot was
of Braintree soon after this period.
WILSON, *DANIEL, was representative of Northampton 1666.
HENRY, Dedham, freeman 1641, whose son Michael was b. 1644.
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WILSON. WINES.
JACOB, Braintree, had a son Isaae, who was b. 1641. JOHNy
freeman 1633, the first minister of Boston, third son of Rev. Wil-
liam Wilson, D. D., was b. at Windsor, in England, in 1588 ; was
educated at King's College, Cam bi^dge ; settled at Sudbury, in Suf
folk \ came to N. E. with Gov. Winthrop in 1630 ; was installed 27
August, same year, over the first church, and d. 7 Aug. 1667, ».
78, having had for his colleagues the celebrated Cotton and Nortra.
He was brother to Rev. William Wilson, who gave .£1000 to New-
England. Edmund, his eldest son, named for his great uncle, Ed-
mund Grindall, archbishop of Canterbury, went to Europe, travelled
in Holland, in Italy, where he received the degree of M. D., and
from thence went to England, and died a. 1658. JOHNy son of
the preceding, was b. in England, in July, 1621, grad. in the first
class at H. C. 1642, was admitted member of the chi^rch in Boston
1644 ; freeman 1647 ; ordained as colleague with Rev. Richard
Mather at Dorchester, and after two years, was settled in Medfield,
where he was pastor 40 years, and d. 23 Aug. 1691, ae. 70. His
children b. in Medfield, were Elizabeth, Increase, and Thomas.
•JOHN, was a representative of Maiden in 1689. JOSEPH, Doi^
Chester, was admitted freeman 1638. LAMBERT, was an early
chirurgeoh in Salem. MATTHEW, New-Haven 1642. NA-
THANIEL, Roxbury, had sons, Joseph and Benjamin, twins, b. in
1656, both died in infancy. THEOPHILUS, received a grant of
land in Ipswich 1638. THOMAS, admitted freeman 1634, was
probably of Exeter in 1639. Belknap, i. Hist. N. H. 36. WIL-
LIAM, joiner, Boston, admitted to the church 1635, freenaan 1636,
disarmed in 1637, had sons, Shoarborn, b. 1635 ; John, b. 1639 :
Joseph, b. 1643, settled in Andover, and d. in 1718, ae. 75 ; New-
grace, b. 1645.
WILTON, DAVID, or DAVIS, Dorchester, freeman 1633, per-
haps of Northampton in 1660.
WINBORN, JOHN, was a preacher at Manchester before
1686, and left that place as early as 1689. Felt.
WINCHELL, NATHANIEL, Westfield 1686.
WINCHESTER, *ALEXANDER, freeman 1636, Braintree
1639, which he represented in 1641. Ebenezer and Isaac Win-
chester grad. at H. C. in 1744 and 1764. JOHN, Muddy-River,
now Brookline, was admitted freeman 1637, d. 25 April, 1694, ae.
upwards of 80, leaving sons, John, Josiah, and Jonathan. Rev.
Jonathan a descendant, grad. at H. C. in 1737. ||RICHARD, ac-
cording to Whitman, was a member of the ar. co. 1638, but the
name should probably be John, the preceding.
WINCOLL, HUMPHREY, Cambridge 1634. ♦JOHN, a cap-
tain, was admitted freeman in 1646, and represented Kittery in
1653, 1654, 1655, 1675, 1677, and 1678. He is mentioned in Hob-
bard's Indian Wars. ROBERT, Massachusetts, was admitted free-
man 1635. THOMAS, Watertown 1642, d. 10 June, 1657.
WINES, BARNABAS, Watertown, was admitted freeman in
1635. FAINTNOT, Massachusetts, freeman 1644.
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WiN6> WINSLOW.
WING, JOHN, Lynn, removed to Sandwich 1637. He ra.Deb-
orah, daughter of Stephen Batchelor. This name continues in that
vicinity. ROBERT, Boston, had sons, John, b. 1637, member of
the ar. co. 1671, its captain 1693, probably d. at Boston, 22 Feb.
1704; Jacob, b. 1642; Joseph, b. 1646, freeman 1679.
WINGATE, JOHN, Dover as early as 1666, was admitted free-
man, died a. 1689 ; had children, Ann, b. 18 Feb. 1667 ; John, b.
13 July, 1670; Joshua; and Caleb. Joshua, m. Mary Lunt of
Newbury, 1702, lived in Hampton, N. H., and, with his wife, d.
over 90 years of age. He was at the conquest of Louisburg 1745,
aad afterwards a colonel. Two of his sons were, Rev. Paine Win-
^ate, H. C. 1723, of Amesbury, and John Wingate, H. C. 1744,
who d. a bachelor, 4 Sept. 1812, ae. 87. Hon. Paine Wingate, of
Stratham, is son of the former. He was born 14 May, 1739, grad.
«t H. C. 1759, and now [1829] the oldest living graduate, and after
being the i^inister of Hampton-Falls ,was one of the first Senators
from N .H. in Congress 1789, four years, and Judge of the Supreme
court of N. H.. Joseph Wingate, esq. of Hallowell, was also a son
of Rev. Paine Wingate, of Amesbury. OLIVER, from Bridge-
town, England, was cast away at the Isles of Shoals in 1664. CofSn.
WINN, EDWARD, Woburn, freeman 1643, had a son Increase
b. in 1641, and probably others.
WINSHIP, ||*EDWARD, Cambridge, freeman 1635, member
of the ar. CO. 1638, was representative 1663, 1664, 1681 to 1686,
«ight years, d. 2 Dec. 1688, se. 76. He had sons, JBphraim, b. 1643,
freeman 1679 ; Edward, b. and d. 1648 ; Edward, 2d, b. 1655;
Samuel, b. 1658 ; Joseph, b. 1661 ; and seven daughters. This
name is also spelled Windship,
WINSLOW, §tEDWARD, son of Edward Winslow, esq., was
born in Worcestershire 1594; came to N. E. with the Plymouth
pilgrims 1620; was chosen an assistant 13 years from 1634, and
elected governour in 1633, 1636, and 1644. He d. 8 May, 1655,
while a commissioner of the united colonies to superintend the ex-
pedition against the Spaniards in the West-Indies. Elizabeth, his
wife, d. at Plymouth, 24 March, 1621, and on the 12 May following,
he m. Susanna, widow of William White, and this was the first mar-
• Tiage in New-England. Gov. Winslow had 4 brothers and three
sisters. ♦EDWARD, representative of Salisbury 1644. Coll. N.
H. Hist. Soc. ii. 215. GILBERT, brother of Gov. Edward, came
over in the May Flower, 1620. Davis, Morton's Memo. JOHN,
brother of the preceding, came over in 1621, m. Mary Chilton, and
went to Boston, and probably freeman in 1672. JOHN, of Boston,
a son or grandson, was born in 1665, and brought the prince of
Orange's declaration to N. E. from Nevis in Feb. 1689, for which
he was imprisoned by Sir Edmund Andros' although he offered
«£2000 security. JOSIA^H, brother of the preceding, came to N.
E. before 1633, and probably a. 1621. ^fJOSIAH, Plymouth, son
of Gov. Edward, was born a. 1629 ; was elected assistant 1657, gov-
ernour from 1673 to 1679, seven years. He d. 18 Dec. 1680^ ae.
51, being the first governour, a native of New-England. His wife
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WINSLOW. WINTHROP,
was Penelope PeJham, daughter of Herbert Pelham. She d. in
1703, IB. 73. Isaac Winslow, his son, was counsellor of Massachu-
setts, and d. in 1738. His grandson, John Winslow, was captain of
the expedition against Cuba in 1740, and afterwards rose to the
rank of major-general in the British service, and was judge of the
court of common pleas, and d. at Hingham in April, 1774, in his
72d year. Isaac Winslow, son of General Winslow, was a physi-
cian, and d. in 1819, sb. 81. The late John Winslow, esq. was son
of Dr. Winslow. KENELM, brother of Gov. Edward, was of Plym-
outh 1633.
WINSOR, JOSEPH, Lynn, removed to Sandwich 1637. Lewis.
JOSHUA, Providence 1639. ROBERT, Boston, had a son Tho-
mas, b. in 1652.
WINTER, JOHN, Scituate 1637, from whence he removed to
Cambridge, and was there in 1672. A John Winter was of Water-
town, and a Timothy Winter was early at Braintree. Hon. Fran-
cis Winter, H. C. 1765, a patriot of the revolution, and chaplain, d.
at Bath, Me. in 1826, ae. 82.
WINTHROP, IIADAM, Boston, son of Gov. John Winthrop,
was born in England, 7 April, 1620, was admitted freeman 1641,
member of the ar. co. 1642, d. 24 August, 1652, qe. 32. His wife
was Elizabeth Glover, f ||*ADAM, Boston, son of the preceding,
grad. at H. C. 1668, was elected representative in 1691 and 1692,
member of the ar. co. 1692, a member of the council under the
charter of 1691, d. in August, 1700. His son Adam, who grad. at
H. C. 1694, d. 2 Oct. 1743, was father of Adam, H. C. 1724, and
John, H. C. 1732, the learned professor at Cambridge, and a mem-
ber of the Royal Society, who d. 3 May, 1779, in his 65th year.
Four sons of professor Winthrop grad. at H. C, John in 1765, Ad-
am in 1767 ; James, LL. D. 1769, who d. in Sept. 1821, and Wil-
liam, S. H. S. in 1770, who d. 5 Feb, 1825, k. 72, ||DEANE, son of
Gov. John Winthrop, of Massachusetts, was b, 16 March, 1623, was
member of the ar. CO. 1644, freeman 1665, was concerned in the
settlement of Groton, which probably wad named in hohour of his
father, whose paternal seat was at Groton, in Suffolk, England.
Hed. atPuJIing Point, 16 March, 1704, ap. 81, He bad a son
Deane, b. 6 Sept. 1653, who m. and lived in Boston. HENRY,
brother of the preceding, was drowned at Salem, 2 July, 1630, a
few days after his arrival in New-England. fFITZ-JOHN, son of
Gov. John Winthrop of Connecticut, was born at Boston, 14 March,
1639 [Records] ; was one of Sir Edmund Andros' council 1687 ;
assistant of Connecticut 1689 ; major-general of the land army de-
signed against Canada ; agent to Great-Britian 1694 ; was a mem-
ber of the Royal Society; governour of Connecticut in 1698, until
his death, which occurred at Boston, 27 Nov, 1707, in his 69th year,
^f t JOHN, the great ancestor of the Winthrops in this country, and
the father of the Massachusetts colony, was son of Adam Winthrop,
and was born at Groton, in Suffolk, England, 12 Jan. 1588. He
arrived in N. E. 12 June, 1630, and soon settled at Boston; was
elected assistant 4 years ; deputy-governour in 1636, 1644, and
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1645 ; was governour in 1630, and eleven years afterwards. He d.
526 March, 1649, ae. 61. Mather, [i. Magnalia, 109] gives his birth
12 June, 1587, but it will be more safe to follow his learned and
accurate annotator. He m. (1) 16 April, 1605, Mary, daughter
of John Forth, esq. by whom he had John, Henry, Forth, and 3
slaughters ; (2) the daughter of William Clopton ; (3) 29 A^ril,
1618, Margaret, daughter of Sir Tindal Knight, by whom (who
d. 14 June, 1647^ he had, Adam, Stephen, Deane, Samuel, Anne,
and William ; (4) Martha, widow of Thomas Coytmore in 1648,
and had one son, Joshua, b. 12 Dec. 1648, d. 11 Jan. 1659. Sav-
age, ii. Winthrop, Index. §JtJOHN, son of the preceding, was b.
12 Feb. 1606 ; was educated at the universities of Cambridge and
Dublin, came to N. E. in 1631 ; freeman, 3 April, 1632, settled at
Ipswich, where Martha, his wife, the daughter of Henry Painter, d.
soon after he went there. He was elected an assistant from 1632
to 1649; went to Connecticut, was a magistrate in 1651 ; a deputy-
governour ; and in 1657, governour, which office he filled until his
death, at Boston, 5 April, 1676, sb. 70. He was one of the found-
ers of the Royal Society in England. His children were Gov. Fitz-
John, Hon. Waitstill, and 3 daughters, all by Elizabeth, his 2d wife.
Ibid, i. 64, 65, and ii. Index. Holmes, i. Annals, 387. ||*STE-
PHEN, brother of the preceding, was admitted freeman 1636, mem-
ber of the ar. co. 1644; representative for Portsmouth 1644; went
to England, and lived in the parish of St. Margaret's, Westminster,
commanded a regiment, and was member of parliament in Crom-
well's time. His wife was Judith, and his children were Stephen
and John, b. in Boston 1644 and 1646, who probably d. young ;
Margaret, who m. Henry Ward and Edmund Willie, both of London,
and was living in 1699 ; Judith, who m. Richard Hancock, a cloth-
maker, of London. Ibid, i. 126. Rev. J. B. Felt, MS letter.
Jll WAIT-STILL, son of Gov. John Winthrop, of Connecticut, wa^
b. at Boston, 27 Feb. 1642, was one of Sir Edmund Andros' coun-
cil 1687; member of the ar. co. 1691; one of the first council under
the new charter 1692 ; d. at Boston, 7 Sept. 1717, m, 75. He ra.
Mary, daughter of Hon. William Browne of Salem. She d. 14 June
1690. His son John, who grad. at H. C. 1700, was fellow of the Royal
Society ; m. a daughter of Gov. Joseph Dudley, and d. 1 August,
1747, leaving a son John-Still Winthrop, who was b. 15 Jan. 1720,
d. 6 June, 1776, whose sons were, John, H. C. 1770 ; Francis-Bay-
ard, of New- York ; William, of New- York; Joseph, of Charlestown,
S. C. who died 1828 ; Thomas-Lindall, H. C. 1780, of Boston, the
lieutenant-governour of Massachusetts. Five sons of Lieut-Gov.
Winthrop are on the catalogue of Harv. College, viz. James, a
counsellor of Boston, who has taken the name of Bowdoin, John-
Temple, Francis- William, George-Edward, and Robert-Charles.
WISE, JOHN, Cambridge, d. 9 Sept. 1644. *JOHN, minister
of Chebacco parish, Ipswich, was son of the following, and was bap-
tized at Roxbury, 15 August, 1652; grad. at H. C. 1673; was
ordained in 1682. He was imprisoned in 1688, by order of Sir
Edmiind Andros, for remonstrating against taxes, imposed without
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an assembly, as a grievance. He was a representative in 1689, and
in 1690 one of the chaplains in the expedition against Canada. He
d. 8 April, 1725, ae. 73. Rev. Jeremiah Wise, H. C. 1700, minis-
ter of Berwick from Nov. 1707, to 20 Jan. 1756, and Henry Wise,
H. C. 1717, a merchant of Ipswich, were probably his sons. JO*
SEPH, Roxbury, d. 12 Sept. 1684, had sons, Joseph, born 1643 ;
John, b. 1652 ; Henry, b. 1654.
WISEMAN, JAMES, Boston 1655, had a son James, born at
Braintree.
WIS WALL, ICHABOD, from Dorchester, entered H. Cdl.
1644, and left without a degree in 1647, was minister of Duxbury,
about 30 years. He is characterized as a gentleman of piety and
learning ; was the agent of Plymouth colony in England, in ]689|
for obtaining a new charter. He d. 20 July, 1700. His only son,
Peleg, [S. Davis] grad. at H. C. 1702, and died at Boston, 2 Sept.
1767, aged 84. *JOHN, Dorchester, a deacon of the church, was
admitted freeman 1636, representative 1646, removed to Boston, and
was an elder of the first church ; d. 17 Aug. 1687, ae. 86, leaving an
only son, John. Sexton's Monitor for Dorchester, 2, 28. THO-
MAS, Dorchester, about 1639, freeman 1652, removed to Newton,
where he was ordained the first ruling elder of the church, 20 July,
1664. He d. 6 Dec. 1683. Ebenezer Wiswall, freeman 1675, who
d. at Newton 1691, Enoch, freeman 1685, Thomas, of Newton, and
Capt. Noah, killed in battle, 6 July, 1690, might be his sons. , His
last wife was Isabella Farmer, widow, from Ansley, in Warwick-
shire, from whom, in a direct line, descended Rev. Richard Farmer,
D. D., master of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and author of the
Essay on the Learning of Shakspeare. She d. at Billerica, 21 May,
1686.
WITCHFIELD, JOHN, Massachusetts, was admitted freeman
in 1633.
WITHEREDGE, EDWARD, Boston, was a mariner ; admitted
io the church in 1643, and freeman in 1644.
WITHERS, ♦THOMAS, Pascataqua 1631, representative of
Kittery in 1656. Francis Withers grad. at H. C. 1790.
WITHINGTON, HENRY, Dorchester 1637, was a ruling elder
of the church 29 years, and d. 2 Feb. 1666, ae. 79. John and Hen-
ry Withington were admitted freeman in 1673 and 1677. ||RICH-
ARD, Dorchester, freeman 1640, member of the ar. co. 1646, was
ordained deacon of the church, 1 March, 1669.
WITHMAN, JOHN, Massachusetts, freeman 1642, probably
the same as Whitman.
WITT, JOHN, Lynn 1650, d. Dec. 1675. His first wife was
Elizabeth ; 2d, Sarah. His sons were John and Thomas, JONA-
THAN, Lynn 1650, d. 1665.
WITTER, WILLIAM, Lynn 1630, Salem, d. 1659, ae. 75,leav.
ing children Josiah and Hannah. Benedict, i. Hist. Baptist, 364.
WOLCOTT, JHENRY, came from Somersetshire to N. E, 1630,
freeman 1634. He settled in Dorcheste?, but in 1636, removed to
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Windsor, and was elected a magistrate in 1643, and d. in 1656, in his
78ili year. He is the ^reat aneestor of the three governours of this
name in Connecticut, of whoin the^rsf , Roger Wolcott, was b. at
Windsor, 4 Jan. 1679, governour from 1751 to 1754, and d. 17 May,
1767, ae. 88 ; the secmd. Olivet Wbkott, LL. D., grad. at Y. C.
1747, was governour in IT96, and d. 1 Deo. 1797, aged 71 ; the
third, the late Governour Oliver Wolcott, LL. D., who grad. at Y.
€. 1776. Erastos Wolcott, a distinguished character, was brother
to the second Governour Wolcott, and d. 14 S^. 1793, aged 70.
*JOHN, Cambridge, freeman 1635, was representative at the May
session, 1685. There was a John Wolcott or Wookott, of New-
bury, faNefore 1676, who was born a. 1639, and whose children were
b. there. JOHN, Cambridge, 1635.
WOLFE, PETER, Salem, freeman 1634, was one of the foun-
ders of the Church in fieverly, 1667. Flint, Sermon on death
Dr. Abbot.
WOLLASTON, who is styled a captain, came to N. E.
in 1625, and was the first settler of Mount Wollaston, in Braintree,
(now Qruincy) but left the place for Virginia the next year. Prince,
i. Annals, 152, 162.
WOOD, ANTHONY, Ipswich 1665. 2 Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc.
viii. 167. The word Wood forms a part of more than twenty names
in this Register. When it occurs as a distinct name in old records,
^le s is frequently added, and it is probable a correct des^ignation
of this difference is not in every instance preserved in the following
list. DANIEL, Ipswich, 1648. EDWARD, Charlestown, free-
man 1646, d. 27 Nov. 1642. Edward Wood, of Charlestown, per-
haps his son, settled in Springfield as early as 1643. ||JOHN, pro-
bably ^ Lynn 1636, freeman 1640, member of the ar. eo. 1642,
may be the same who was at Salem in lr646. Felt, Annals Salem,
172. JONAS, Springfield, 1636. NICHOLAS, Dorchester, free-
man 1641, may be the same who was of Medfield in 1656. Hutch-
inson, i. Mass. 108. MICHAEL, Concord 1642, was only son of
William Wood, and d. 18 May, 1674, leaving children, Abraham,
Isaac, Jacob, Thompson, John, and Abigail. Shattuck, MS. Hist.
Concord. || RICHARD, whose name is spelled Woodde, was a
member of the ar. co. 1642; its captain in 1677. ROBERT, Ded-
ham, d. 3 Dec. 1638. ♦WILLIAM, Lynn 1630, freeman 1631,
representative 1636, removed to Sandwich 1637, was town clerk
there until 1650, when he again removed, and was living in 1685.
WILLIAM, the author of New-England's Prospect, printed at Lon-
don 1634, was very early in this country. He sailed from Boston
on his return to England, 16 August, 1633, but is supposed to have
returned to New-England, and Mr. Shattuck [MS. Letter] conjec-
tures that he was the William Wood who resided in Concord, and
died there, 14 May, 1671, ae. 86, while Mr. Lewis contends for his:
being the early resident at Lynn, above named.
WOODBRIDGE, BENJAJffIN, the first graduate at H. C,
1642, was son of Rev. John Woodbridge, of Wiltshire, England,
and was b. at Highworth 1622. Afler completing his education,
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he returned to England, was settled at Salisbury, 16 Nov. 1648 ;
afterwards succeeded Dr. Twiss at Newbury ; was ejected from of-'
fice in 1662, and d. at Englefield, [perhaps the summit of Cooper's
Hill] in Berkshire, 1 Nov. 1684, ae. 62. BENJAMIN, a nephew
of the preceding, and son of Rev. John Woodbridge, of Andover
and Newbury, was sometime minister of Bristol [Coffin], and in
1688, was minister in Kittery. He d. at Medford, 15 Jan. 1710.
His wife was Mary, a daughter of Rev. John Ward. XJOHN^ the
first minister of Andover, was brother to the first named Benjamin
Woodbridge, and was born at Stanton, in Wiltshire, in 1613, He
came to N. E. in 1634, and settled at Newbury as a planter, and
was the town clerk, but becoming a preacher, he was ordained at
Andover in Oct. 1645.* [Mather says 16 Sept. 1644.] He went to
England in 1647 ; returned in July, 1663, and took up his resi-
dence at Newbury ; was elected an assistant in 1683 and 1684, and
acted as a magistrate till his death, 17 March, 1695. Mr. Savage,
"[ii. Winthrop, 391 and 397] gives two dates for the time of his
death, 1696 and 1695, the last of which is confirmed by the New-
bury town records. Mr. Woodbridge m. Mercy, daughter of Gov.
Thomas Dudley. She was born 27 Sept. 1621, d. 1 July, 1691.
They had 12 children, of whom were, Sarah and Lucie, b. in New-
bury in 1640, and 1642; John, Benjamin, and Timothy, who were
clergymen ; Thomas, a captain, born a. 1649, who m. Mary Jone»
1672, had several children, and d. at Newbury, 2 March, 1681; and
Joseph, who married Martha, grand-daughter of Rev. N. Rogers,
20 May, 1686, and had sons, Joseph and Nathaniel, b. in 1687 and
1696. The other children are not known. Most of his children
were probably born while he was absent in England. He left three
sons and two sons in law in the ministry, and four grandsons pre-
paring for it. JOHN, minister of Killing worth and Weathersfield,
was son of the preceding, grad. at H. C. 1664, settled at Killing-
worth 1666; removed in 1679 to Weathersfield, and d. in 1690.
His son John grad. at H. C. 1694, was ordained the first minister
of West Springfield, June 1698, and d. 10 June 1718, ae. 40, leav-
ing sons, John and Benjamin. John was b. 25 Dec. 1702, grad.
atY. C. 1726; was minister at Foquonoc, (Windsor) and South-
Hadley, and d. 10 Sept. 1783, ae. 80, being the ninth John Wood-
bridge in the ministry through as many successive generations.
Benjamin grad. at Y. C. and was minister of Amity, now Wood-
bridge, Conn. Three grandsons of Rev. John Woodbridge, of
South Hadley, were in the ministry in 1828, viz. John, D. D. of
Hadley ; Benjamin R. of Norwich ; and Sylvester, of Greenville,
N. Y. TIMOTHY, minister of Hartford, was son of Rev. John
Woodbridge, of Andover and Newbury, and grad. at H. C. 1675;
was ordained 18 Nov. 1685, and d. 30 April, 1732. Ha was pro-
bably born in England.
WOODBURY, HUMPHREY, son of the following, was born a.
1609, came to N. E. in 1628, and settled at Salem ; was admitted to
the church in July, 1648, and was one of the founders of the church
in Beverly in 1667, and was living in 1681.
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WOODBURY, ♦JOHN, Salem, came from Somersetshire, in Eng.
and arr. in N. £. in 1624 ; settled at Salem in 1626 ; went to Eng. in
1627, returned in 1628, was a member of the church ; is on the list of
those desiring freedom 1630 ; was represen. at the courts in May and
Sept. 1635, and in Sept. 163S. He died in 1641. Felt, Annals Sa-
lem, 153. Gibbs, MS letter. NICHOLAS, Salem, received a grant
of land in 1638, and d. in Beverly, 19 May, 1686. ae. 70. •PETER,
Beverly, supposed to be grandson of John Woodbury, was born in
1640 ; was admitted freeman 1668, elected representative 1689;
was a deacon of the church, and died 5 July, 1704, ae. 64. His
son Josiah, b. 15 June, 1682, was grandfather of Peter Woodbury,
b. 28 March, 1738, d. at Francistown, N. H. in March, 1819, leav-
ing a son Peter, who is father of Hon. Levi Woodbury, D. C. 1809,
a senator in Congress from N. H. and of James Trask Woodbury,
H. C. 1823, of Bath, N. H. WILLIAM, Salem, was admitted to
the church, 29 Dec. 1639, freeman 1641 ; and one of the founders
of the church in Beverly 1667; d. in 1674. Tradition makes him
a brother of John Woodbury, but some facts indicate that he was a
son.
WOODCOCK, NATHANIEL, Rehoboth, d. 28 April, 1676.
IIRICHARD, Boston, member of the ar. co. 1658, d. 12 Nov. 1662.
WILLIAM, was a physician of Salem early as 1662.
WOODFORD, THOMAS, freeman 1635, Northampton, 1658.
WOODHOUSE, ♦HENRY, came from London, and settled in
Concord, a. 1650 ; was admitted freeman 165(>, representative in
1685, 1690, and d. 16 June, 1700. Shattuck. ROBERT, Bos-
ton, 1640, had sons, Joseph and Nathaniel, b. in 1641 and 1642.
A John Woodice or Woodhouse died in 1659, probably at Salem.
WOODHULL, RICHARD, was one of the early settlers of
Brookhaven, L. I. Wood, Hist. L. I. 121.
WOODIN, JOHN, Portsmouth, an inhabitant as early as 1636,
states in a deposition that he had a large family of children. Col^
fin, MS.
WOODLAND, JOHN, Braintree 1651, had a son John, b. in
1652. His wife was Martha.
WOODMAN, ♦ARCHELAUS, Newbury, freeman 1637, came
from Wales, according to Mr. Cofiin, and was representative in
1674 and 1675. •EDWARD, Newbury, brother of the preceding,
was admitted freeman 1636, representative in 1636, 1637, 1639,
1643, 1659, 1660, 1664 and 1670. He had sons, Jonathan, Ed-
ward, and others, Joshua Woodman, who lived in Andover, died
1703, IB. 67. JOHN, was admitted freeman 1666, and was a man
of some distinction at Dover. RICHARD, Lynn, 1644, d. 1647.
Lewis
WOODMANSEY, ROBERT, Boston, 1644, had a son Seth,
b. 1644. JOHN, Boston, was admitted freeman 1673. JAMES,
d. at Boston in Feb. 1694.
WOODROFFE, WILLIAM, one of the ejected ministers,
whom Mather calls Woodrop, came to N. E. afler 1660, preached
at Lancaster, Springfield, and other places, between 1670 and 1680.
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He has probably desceDdants in this coantry, the name'bciii^ com-
mon to some parts of it. SeTenteen had grad. in 18% at YiJe and
New-Jersey colleges, of whom six have b^n clergymen. Ephraim
T. Woodruff was a minister of Coventry, Conn, a few years since.
WOODS, JOHN, Sudbury 1643, probaUy admitted freeman
1645, had sons, John and Francis, born in 1641 and 1645. He was
one of the petitioners for Marlborough, where be removed, and died
10 July, 1678. Twenty persons of the name had received the hon-
ours of the N. £. colleges in 1826. RICHARD, Roxbory, d. 6
Dec. 1658, << an old man." Records.
WOODWARD, EDWARD, Ipswich 1666. GEORGE, Wa-
tertown 1641, freoman 1646, d. 31 May, 1676. HENRY, Dor^
Chester 1638, perhaps an inhabitant of Northampton in 1658.
JAMES, Dover 1646. NATHANIEL, an eminent land surveyor,
lived in Boston, and had a large fiimily of children. Hutchinson,
i. Hist. Mass. 191. Savage, i. Winthrop, 284. Snow, Hist. Bos-
ton, 118. *P£TER, Dedham, freeman 1642, was represenutive
1669 and 1670. JOHN Woodward, H. C. 1693, the minister of
Norwich, was from Dedham. RALPH, one of the first deacons €i
the church in Hingham, was ordained 2 Feb. 1640. Lincoln » Hist
Hingham, 23, 45. RICHARD, Watertown, freeman 1635, d. 16
Feb. 1665. Rose, his wife, d. 6 Oct. 1662. ROBERT, Boston, a.
1640, [Snow] d. 21 Nov. 1653. He had sons. Smith, b. 1644;
Robert, b. 1646. THOMAS, Roxbury, d. Oct. 1685.
WOODWORTH, HENRY, Massachusetts, was admitted free-
man in 1642. Recompense Woodsworth, who is called in the Mid-
dlesex CO. records. Bachelor of Arts, d. 12 July, 1679. WALTER,
Scituate, 1634. The Hon. John Woodworth grad. at Y. C. 1788.
Samuel C. Woodworth, known as a poet and editor, is a descendant
from Walter.
WOODY, RICHARD, freeman 1642, was admitted an inhab-
itant of Boston, 1652. RICHARD, Boston, was admitted freeman
in 1644.
WOOLLERY, RICHARD, Newbury 1679.
WOOLLEY, CHRISTOPHER, Concord 1666. Shattnck.
WOOLRIDGE, •JOHN, Dorchester, requested to be made free
19 Oct. 1630 ; admitted to the oath 1634, and was representative
at the court 2 Mu-ch, 1635.
WORCESTER, WILLIAM, the first minister of Saliabnry,
came from Salisbury, in. England, [Coffin] and was admitted free-
man 1640, d. 28 Oct. 1662. Mr. Savage, [ii. Winthrop, 390] hav-
ing the choice of two dates fi>r the day of the month, says 20 Oct
His wife Sarah d. 23 April, 1650, and he m. 22 Aug. 1650, Re-
becca, widow of John Hall, and had been the widow of Henry By*
lie. His children were, Samuel ; William ; Sarah, who d. 1661 ;
Sarah, 2d, b. 1641 ; Timothy, b. 14 May, 1642, lived sometime in
Newbury, and had a son Samuel b. there in 1691 ; Moses, b. 10
Nov. 1643 ; Sarah, 3d, b. 22 June, 1646; Elizabeth, b. 10 March
1648, d. 1649 ; Elizabeth, b. 9. Jan. 1650. This name exists in
Conn., but the frmilies there have written it W^oster. *SAliU£L,
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''■"' " ' * ' j i ■ I II. ■■ I I.I ■ I —
aoD of the preoediog^^as admitted freeman 1670, settled in Brad-
ford, which he represented in 1679, and died at Lynn, on his return
from Boston^ 21 Feb. or April, 1680, leaving children, of whom
Fraacis, who d, 17 Dec. 1717, was father of Rev. Francis Worces-
ter, of Sandwich, b. in June, 1696, d. in New-Hampshire, 14 Oct.
1783, ae. 85, whose son Noah Worcester, esq. b. 4 Oct. 1735, re-
sided in HoUis, N. H. and d. 13 Aug. 1817, m. 82, leaving a large
family, of whom four of the sons were clergymen, viz. Noah, D. 0.,
of Brighton, Ms., the founder of the Mass. Peace Society ; Leonard,
of Peacham, Vt.; Thomas, of Salisbury, N. H. ; and Samuel, D.
D., of Fitchbuq^ and Salem, Mass., who grad. at D. C. 1795, and
d. at Brainerd, in the country of the Cherokees, 7 June, 1821, ».
51. Joseph E. Worcester, member of the American Academy, and
author of many useful geographical and historical works, is of this
family, as are also Thoihas, H. C. 1818, Samuel Austin, Vermont
Ck>ll. 1819, Samuel Melancthon, U. C. 1822, Taylor Gilman, H. C.
1823,. and Leonard, D. C. 1825, being idl grandsons of Noah Web-
ster, esq. ofBollis.
WORDE, THOMAS, Massachusetts, freeman 1642.
WORRALL, JAMES, Scituate 1638. Coffin.
WORSELY, BENJAMIN, Rhode Island 1663.
WORTH, LIONEL, Newbury, d. 29 June, 1667, leaving a
number of children. WILLIAM, brother to Lionel, was an early
settler of Nantucket
WORTHINGTON, NICHOLAS, came from Liverpool, Eng-
land, and settled at Saybrook. [Tradition.] Among his descend*
ants may be named Colonel Thomas Worthington, late governour
of Ohio, Rev. WiUiam Worthington, H. C. 17 J6, Hon. John Wor*
tbington, LL. D., of l^ringfield, who grad. at Y. C. 1740, d. in
April, 1800, m. 81, Daniel Worthington, of Colchester^ Conn, who
had 9 sons and 10 daughters, and Erastus Worthington, esq. the
historian of Dedham.
WOTTEN, JOHN, Portsmouth 1640. Belknap,|i. Hist. N. H.
47. Adams, Annals Portsmouth, 26, 395. (See Walton.]
WRAY, DANIEL, Massachusetts, freeman 1634.
WRIGHT, BENJAMIN, Guilford 1650. EDWARD, Concord,
a. 1650, d. 1691. There was an Edward Wright in Boston in 1657,
who d. in 1689, and a Captain Edward Wright, d. in Sudbury, 7
August, 1703. GEQRGE, Salem 1637, Braintree, freeman 1642,
and the fost lieutenant there. HENRY, Dorchester, freeman 1635,
had a son Samuel, born 1636. ISAAC, Hingham, died in 1652.
ISAAC, LANCASTER, died in 1663. *JOHN, Woburn, was
born a. 1601, representative 1648, had a son John, b. in 1646, who
was probably the John Wright of Chelmsford in 1666, unless the
fiither removed thither. NICHOLAS, Lynn 1637, went to Sand«
wich. Lewis. PETER, Lynn 1637, femoved to Sandwich 1638.
Ibid. RICHARD, Lynn 1630, freeman 1634, was a captain, re-
moved to Boston^ Prince, it. Anoals, 60. Savage, ii. Winthrop^
11^ Sttow, Hiet Boston, 5a Lewb. ^ROBERT, Boston, mew
bet of the tr. oo. 1«43, had sons, John, b. 1645 ; Joseph, b. 16fi6.
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WRIGHT. YALE.
SAMUEL, Sudbury, d. 21 August, 1644. SAMUEL, Springfield
1648, perhaps the same who, with his son Samuel, was at North*
ampton in 1658. THOMAS, Exeter 1639. WILLIAM, Sand-
wich, died 1646. WILLIAM, Plymouth 1623. Davis, Morton's
Memo. 382. Twenty-five of the name had received the honours of
the N. E. colleges in 1827.
WYATT, EDWARD, Massachusetts, fireeman 1646. Wi<|ow
Wyatt d. at Dorchester, 6 Feb. 1704, ae. 94, having been present
" at the birth of 1000 or more children." JOHN, Ipswich 1638,
d. 1665. Coffin.
WYBORNE, JAMES, Boston, d. 7 March, 1658. JOHN,
Scituate 1660. THOMAS, Boston 1653, d. 2 Oct. 1656; had a
son Nathaniel, b. in 1654. Howard Wyborn grad. at H. C. 1720.
WYER, NATHANIEL, Newbury 1637. Coffin. David Wy-
er, H. C. 1758, was a lawyer at Falmouth, Maine.
WYETH, HUMPHREY, Ipswich 1638. NICHOLAS, Cam-
bridge 1648, whose wife was Rebecca, had children, Mary, b. 1649;
Nicholas, b. 10 August, 1651 ; Mary, b. 1650 ; Martha, b. 1653 ;
John, b. 15 July, 1655 ; William, b. 11 Jan. 1658. Several of the
name have grad. at Harv. College.
WYLLYS, tf§GEORGE, son of Richard Wyllys, of Fenny-
Compton, in Warwickshire, who d. 10 June, 1597, came to N. £.
as early as 1638, and settled at Hartford, where he was elected a
magistrate in 1639 ; deputy-governour 1641, and governourin 1642.
He d. in March, 1644. He had two brothers, William and . Rich-
ard. His descendants write the name as above, but on the family
monuments at Fenny-Compton, for several successive generations,
it is spelled WiUi/s. SAMUEL, son of the preceding, was born in
England, and probably at Fenny-Compton, in 1632, grad. at H. C.
1653, was elected a magistrate of Connecticut 1654, and continued
in that office, a. 30 years ; d. 30 May, 1709, e. 76. He m. Mary,
daughter of Gov. ^aynes. Hezekiah Wyllys, his son, was secreta-
ry of Conn, from 1712 to his death, in 1734. His grandson, George
Wyllys, b. 6 Oct. 1710, was secretary of Conn, from 1735 to his
death, 24 April, 1796. Samuel Wyllys, son of the last, was b. 15
Jan. 1739, grad. at Y. C. 1758, succeeded his father as secretary ;
remained in office until 1809, and d. 9 June, 1823, being of the 10th
generation from Richard Wyllys, of Napton, in the reign of Henry
WYMAN, FRANCIS, Woburn 1644, had a son Francis, who d.
26 April, 1676. JOHN, Woburn 1644. The descendants of these,
probably brothers, have been somewhat numerous. Among them,
are John Wyman, H. C. 1721 ; Ebenezer Wyman, H. C. 1731,
minister of Union, Conn., Rufus Wyman, M. D., of Charlestown,
a member of the American Academy, who grad. at H. C. 1799, and
two others who grad. at H. College.
YALE, DAVID, descended from an ancient and wealthy family
in Wales, came to N. E. and settled at Boston, and was admitted
freeman 1640. His sons David and Theophilus were born at Bos-
ton, 18 Sept. 1645, and 14 Jan. 1651. Savage, ii. Winth. 262
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THOMAS, New-Haven 1638, was brother to the preceding. His
son Elihu was born at New-Haven, 5 April, 1648, went to England,
a. 1658, and from thence at a. the age of 30 to the East-Indies,
where he lived near 20 years, and acquired a large estate. He m.
one of the natives, the widow of Gov Hinmers, by whom he had 3
daughters, Catharine, who m. Dudley North, commonly called Lord
North ; Ann, who m. Lord James Cavendish, and Ursula. After
he returned to England, he was chosen governour of the East India
company. He d. at Wrexham, in Wdes, 8 July, 1721, ae. 73.
Pres. Clap, Hist. Yale College, which derives its name from Gov.
Yale, pp. 29, 30.
YEO, THOMAS, Boston, had a son Thomas, b. in 1654.
YEOMANS, EDWARD, Boston 1656, had a son Edward b. in
1657.
YORK, JAMES, Braintree 1647, had a son James, b. 14 June,
1640. RICHARD, Oyster-river [Durham, N. H.] 1652.
YOUNG, CHRISTOPHER, Salem, died a. 1647. JOSEPH, a
mariner, was of Salem 1649. GEORGE, Scituate 1640. Coffin.
JOHN, Charlestown, d. 29 Dec. 1672. fJOHN, a.magistrate of
New-Haven colony 1664. Perhaps this should be Youngs, RICH-
ARD, Kittery, freeman 1652.
YOUNGLOVE, SAMUEL, Ipswich 1648. JOHN, Hadley, was
admitted freeman 1675.
YOUNGS, JOHN, the first minister of South-Old, L. I., who
had been a minister in Hingham, England, came to New-Haven
with part of his church in 1640, and in October of that year com-
menced the settlement of South-Old, where he died in 1672, 8b. 74.
Wood, Hist. L. I. 34. JOHN, the eldest son of the preceding, was
a colonel, and the sheriff of Yorkshire, in 1681, then embracing all
Long-Island, and d. in 1698, e. 75. Benjamin Youngs, his brother,
was judge of the Suffolk (L. I.) court of common pleas, Joshua and
Thomas Youngs were also judges of the same court. David Youngs,
Y. C. 1741, was minister of Brookhaven from 1745 to his death in
1752. Ibid, 34, 35.
ZULLISH, DAVID, Massachusetto, was admitted freeman 1642.
Sanage, ii. Winthrop, 372.
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APPENDIX.
CONTAUONG ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS,
NAMES WHICH DO NOT APPEAR IN THK TEXT ARE ENCLOSED WITHIN BRACKET^*
ADAMS, IITHOMAS, of Braintree, Concord, and Chelmsford,
was member of the ar. co. 1644. JEREMY, Cambridge, freeman
1635. THOMAS, freeman 1643.
ALLERTON, JOHN, one of the first pilgrims at Plymouth, d.
in 1621. Prince, i. Annals, 86.
ALLIN. In the 3d line, fw 1676, rtad 1671, and in the 6th
line of this name, after graduates insert at H. C. John, the son re-
corded as born 4 Dec. 1639, was probably son of James Allen, and
not of the Rev. John Allin.
AMADOWN, ROGER, probably d. at Rehoboth, 13 Nov. 1673.
AMES. In the 18th line, /or Francker, rtad Praneker.
ANTRUM, THOMAS, Salem, member of the church 1639,
freeman 1642, d. 1663.
APPLETON, SAMUEL, d. at Rowley. JOHN, Ipswich, had
4 daughters, viz. Elizabeth, who m. Richard Dummer, jr. ; Priscil-
la, who m. a Capon ; Sarah, who m. a Rogers ; and Mary who m.
Nath'l Thomas. John the eldest son of John Appleton, had daugh-
ters, Elizabeth, who m. Rev. Jabez Fitch ; Margaret, who m. Rev,
Pres. Edward Holyoke, and was mother to the venerable cehtenna-
rian of Salem, and Priscilla, who m. Rev. Robert Ward. SAMUEL,
Ipswich, was commander of the forces on Connecticut river in Phil-
ip's war in 1676, and in the expedition to Narraganset in Dec. of
that year. His son Samuel m. Elizabeth Whittingham ; had three
daughters, Judith, who m. Samuel Wolcott of Windsor, Conn. ;
Hannah, who m. Wm. Downes, of Boston, and Susanna, who m.
Nath'l Whipple.
[ARNOLD, JOHN, Massachusetts, was admitted freeman 164^.1
[ARTHUR, JOHN, Weymouth 1642.1
ASHLEY, ROBERT, Springfield, d. 29 Nov. 1682. [JOSEPH,
Springfield, d. 18 May, 1698J
[ASHTON, JAMES and THOMAS, were proprietors of Provi-
dence, a. 1639. Coffin.]
[ATHEARN, SIMON, New-Hampshire, about 1687.1
[ATKINS, HENRY, Yarmouth 1647, then of Plymouth, where
his son Samuel was b. 1651 ; then of Eastham, where Isaac was b,
1667.1
AvERY, THOMAS, Salem, a blacksmith, was admitted freeman
1643.
[BABSON, JAMES, Gk>ucester 1664, was admitted freeman
1666.1
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BACON. BAYLEY.
BACON, JNATHANIEL, m. Hannah Mayo 1642, and had
sons, Nathaniel, b. 1645 ; Samuel, b. 1650 ; Jeremiah, b. 1659.
[BAGG, JOHN, Springfield, died 5 Sept. 1683. Rev. W.B.
Sprague.]
BALDWIN, JOHN, Billerica, left sons, John, Jonathan, and
Thomas, and daughters, Susanna, Phebe, and Mary.
BALL, FRANCIS, Springfield, d. 21 January, 1700. Rcy. W.
B. Sprague.
[BALLOU, MATURIN, was one of the proprietors of Provi-
dence as early as 1639. Coffin. Maturin Ballou was a Baptist
preacher at Richmond, N. H. as early as 1770.1
[BARBER, THOMAS, Windsor 1640, was a Pequot soldier.]
BAREFOOTE, tW ALTER, was of Great Island, now New-
Castle, N. H. and d. about 1688.]
BARLOW, GEORGE, Exeter 1639, it appears was in 1652 of
Saco, where he was a preacher, but forbidden in 1653, by the
Court, to preach or prophecy there under the penalty of ilO, fiwr
every offence. Greenleaf, Eccl. Sketches, 52.
BARNARD, ||MATTHEW, Boston. His son John, deacon of
the 2d church, was probably father of Rev. John Barnard, H. C.
1700, who was b. at Boston, 6 Nov. 1681, and d. at Marblehead,
24 Jan. 1770. Rev. John Barnard of Andover, p. 26, line 7th, d.
14 June, 1758, «. 68.
[BARSTOW, GEORGE, John, Joseph, and William, were of
Scituate, as early as 1650.] MICHAEL, Watertown, was admit-
ted fireeman 1636.
BARTHOLOMEW, *HENRY, Salem, freeman 1637, d. 1692,
s. 85. His wife was Elizabeth, who d. 1 Sept. 1682, e. 60. He
bad a number of children. Of those who survived him was Henry.
Felt, Annals, 310. *WILLIAM, was admitted freeman 1635.
BARTLETT, JOHN, Newbury, was admitted freeman 1637.
BASCOM, THOMAS, was of Windsor 1640.
BASS, erase WILLIAM, Massachusetts, freeman 1638.
BATES, ♦EDWARD, Weymouth, freeman 1638. There were
two of this name, one of whom was of Boston, and the freeman of
1637.
BATTER, *EDMUND, was admitted freeman 1636. His first
wife was Sarah, who with him joined the church as early as 1635.
His 2d wife was Mary, daughter of Daniel Gookin. He left chil-
dren, Edmund, Mary, Elizabeth, and Daniel. Felt, Annals, 281.
[BATTELLE, THOMAS, Dedham, was admitted freeman 1654.
Ebenezer Battelle grad. at H. C. 1775, and died in 1818, s. 64.]
ROBERT, Boston, died 23 Dec. 1658. Erase the name Battle,
[BATTING, WILLIAM. Saco, about 1659.]
BAYLEY, JOHN, jr. Newbury, was born a. 1615. His son
James, b. in 1650, grad. at H. C. in 1669, was a preacher at Salem
Village 1671, and finally settled, it is said in Roxbury, where he
was a magistrate, and d. 17 Jan. 1707. Rev. James, of Weymouth,
H. C. 1719, was son of James Bayley of Roxbury.
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BEAMSLEY. BOSWELL.
BEAMSLEY, ||WIL,LIAM, Boston 1632, admitted to the church
1634, freeman 1636, and probably member of ar. co. 1656. He d.
2(^Sept. 1658.
BECK, ALEXANDER, was of Boston.
[BEIRCE, AUSTIN, Barnstable 1650, had sons Josiah, born
1651 ; James, b. 1660. This name continues in the old colony.]
BFLCHER, IIANDREW, d. before 1681. Elizabeth, his wife,
d. 4 June 1680, ae. 61. His daughters m. respectively, a Blowers^
& Remington, a Ballard, and Joseph Sill. His son Andrew was
one of the council of safety . 1689, [Hutch, i. Mass. 340] and one of
the council of the province from May 1702, to 31 Oct. 1717, when
he died, ae. 70 years, leaving one son, Jonathan, the governour of
Mass., N. H., and N. J, His daughters should be stated as of Bos-
ton instead of, Charlestown, excepting Sarah Fay, which should be
Sarah Foye of Ch^rlestown.
BENNETT. In the 4th line, /or EDWARD, read EDMUND.
BISHOP, EDWARD, Salem 1645, was one of the founders of
the church, in Beverly 1667.
[BISSELL, JOHN, came from England with Rev. E. Hewett,
and settled at Windsor as early as 1640.]
BLACKMAN, ADAM, was of Stratford instead of Strafford.
BENJAMIN, H. C. 1663, was probably his son, and was a preach-
er and magistrate of Saco before 1688.
[5LACKMORE, WILLIAM; possibly the one of Lynn, died at
Scituate, 21 April 1676,]
BLOOD, JAMES, Concord, freeman 1641. The authority for
the first three lines, is Mr. Shattuck.
[BLUMFIELD, WILLIAM, Massachusetts, was admitted free-
man 1635. Some of this name went early to New Jersey, where
the name of Bloomfieldf said to b^ the same, exists.]
BLUNT, WILLIAM, Andover. His sons were William, who d.
1738, 8B. 67 ; Samuel, and Hanborough. The sons of William were
David, Rev. John, Jonathan, and El^ezer.
[BLUSH, ABRAHAM, Barnstable, had sons, Joseph, b. 1648 ;
Abraham, b. 1654, and probably others.]
[BOLTWOOD, SAMUEL, Hadley 1672. Ebenezer Boltwood
grad. at H. C. 1773.]
30NIGHT0N. Er(zse this paragraph and insert the following :
BONYTHON, RICHARD, Saco 1636, a captain, and appoint-
ed assistant of the plantation there, 2 Sept. 1639, d. a. 1650. His
daughter m. Richard Foxwell. John, hi? son, was of Casco 1658,
and is supposed by Mr. Folsom to have been killed by the Indians,
a. 1684, and the one commemorated in the distich in. Sullivan's Hist,
of Maine, p. 368, although the author of that work considers Rich-
ard as the one who " went to Hockomocko."
[SONDE T, DANIEL, minister of the French congregation
in Oxford in 1691. Mather, ii. M^gnalia, 382. Worcester Mag.
ii. 363.1
[BOSWELL, SAMUEL, Bradford, a. 1663. Spofford, Gazet-
teer Mass. 163.]
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BOWDITCH. CHAUNCY:
BOWDITCH* The blank should be supplied with WILLIAM.
He d. 1682. See Felt's Annals Salem, 174, 37L
BOWMAN, NATHANIEL, of Watertown 1637, instead of
1687. He requested to be admitted freeman 19 Oct. 1630.
BOWSTREE, or BOWSTREETE, WILLIAM^ Concord, was
admitted freeman 1639.
BRACKENBURY. For RICHARD, read WILLIAM, who
was admitted freeman 4 March, 1633. RICHARD^> Salem, was
admitted freeman 14 May, 1634, and was probably one of the foun-'
ders of the church in Beverly, and the one who d. in 1684, ae. 84.
BRADSTREET, JOHN, Salem, a. 1659. Erase this article,
BRATCHER, AUSTIN, d. in 1630.
BRENTON. 5th line of this name, /or a; read before.
BREWSTER, NA THANIEL. From the new edition (the*
third) of Hon. Mr. Wood's Hist, of the towns on Long-Island; p. 48,
it appears that Mr. Brewster was settled at Brookhaven in the fall
of 1665, instead of 1656, according to the former editions.
[BRIGHT, SAMUEL, Massachusetts, was admitted freeman in
1645.1
BROOKHAVEN, JOHN, a captain of Rhode-Island 1669.
1 Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. ▼. 249.
BROWN) |HENRY, Rhode-Island, was an assistant 1652.
JAMES, Newbury, freeman 1637. ROBERT, Cambridge, free-
man 1639. JOHN, and the first SAMUEL, both of Salem, were
brothers. Page 45th, line 15 from bottom, 36 should be 366.
THOMAS, Concord, freeman 1^38. JAMES, Newbury, p. 44,
was admitted freeman in 1637.
BUCKLAND^ THOMAS, freeman 1635, was of Windsor 1640.
WILLIAM, probably d. at Rehoboth, 1 Sept. 1679.
BULGAR, RICHARD. He was of Exeter in 1640. His name is
erraneousfy Biiellyer, in Hazard's Collections, and in Coll. N. H.
Hist; Soc. i. 322, as John Kelly, esq. assures me.
BULKLEY, GERSHOM, was b. at Concord in Dec. 1636, died
at Weathersfield, 2 Dec. 1713, sb. 77. Shattuck, MS Hist. Con-
cord. JOHN, freeman 1642.
[BULL, THOMAS, was an officer in the Pequot war 1637.
2 Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. viii, 139.]
[BURR, JOHN', Massachusetts, and perhaps of Ipswich, was
ad m i tted free m an 1 63 1 . ]
[BURRAGE, WILLIAM, a preacher at Scarborough, a. 4 years
from 1684, and a selectman and town cl^rk.]
BUSS. In the 5th line, erase the comma after N. H. In the
11th line, for Lieut. Bass, read Lieut. Buss.
BUTLER, HENRY, who grad. at H. C. in 1651, is said to have
been a physician in Boston.
BUTTON, IIJOHN, member of ar. co. 1643.
CARPENTER, JOSEPH, d. 6 May, 1675. [SAMUEL, sen.
Rehoboth, d. 20 Feb. 1683.1
CHAFFY, IIMATTHEW, member of the ar. co. 1642.
GHAUNCY, ISRAEL, was of Stratford, instead of Stamford.
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CHICHESTER. DAVIS.
Hey. Mr. Field, in his Statistical Account of Middlesex County,
Conn., says that JRev. Nathaniel,, Y. C. 1702, the minister of Dur-
tham, in thatstate, fron? 47X1 4o IIW, wjis his son, but the family
genealogy regards him as the son of-Rev. Nathaniel, of .J^atjiejd.
CHICHESTER, JAMES. One of this name W9>s 9,1 Taunton
in 1643.
[CHIPMAN, JOHN, Barnstable 1652, hadfions John and Samu-
,ej, b.in 1657. and 1661.1
CHURCHILL, JOHN^ Plymouth, died 1 Jan. 1663. His son
Eleazar was bf, 1652J
CLARK, |DANIEL, magistrate of Conn., came from England
with Rev. E. Hewett, a. 1639, and settled at Windsor. JIJ^THO:
MAS, Boston, was •apta^in of |he ar. co. in 1653, and 1665. On
,62 page, 4th line, /or captaii) reae;? baptism.
COBB^ HENRY". Six o/his sons wer^, John and James, b. at
Plymouth in 1632 and 1634; Gershom, b. at Scituate 1644, d. 24
June 1675; Eleazar, [?] b. 1648j ,*Samuel, b. 1654, and Jona. b.
.166Q.
COBBETT. Erqs^ 4be 4ast two lines of this paragraph. THO-
MASl.freidm^ 1638.
COUE, IISAMUEL, member of the ar. co. 163Z.
converse;, •EDWARD, Charjestown, freemaa 1631.
COOK, AARON, perhaps of Windsor 1640. JOSEPH, came
;from EarlerCoJne, or its vicinity to N. ^. in Oct. 1635.
CORNEL, fro^e 4p 'this paragraph, ''James Cornall was 9.
witness to the iEndi^n Dieed to Rev. John Wheelwright 1638.''
COTTON. Page 71, erase "GEORGE, Springfield, died 17
December i699," and transfer the date to the name of COLTON,
GEORGE, p, 66. Rev, Seaborn Cotton, p. 70, had a son Roland,
by a second y^ife, who grad. at H. Q. 1696, and received the degree
ofM, D,
CRO AD. f n the 4th line, for Mampton, read Frampton,
[CROCKER, WILLIAM, Barnstable, had sons, John, b, 1637;
Samuel, b. 1642,- Job, 1644 j Josiah, 1647; Eleazar., 1650; Jot
seph, 1654.1
CROFTE, GRIFFIN. This ^^ame in Savage, ii, Winthrop,
v362, should be Griffin Craft, Roxbury, freeman 1631.
[GROSSMAN, IIROBERT, member of the ar. co. 1644, One
4)f this tiame was of Taunton, and had sons, John, Robert, Joseph,
Nathaniel, Eleazar, and Samuel, b. there from 1653 to 1667.]
[CUNNINGPAM^ PATRICK, .Springfield, d. 12 -Sept. 1685.
^prague.l
[CURTIS, GEORGE, Massachusetts, admitted freeman 1640.1
CUTTER. Erase ^* ROBERT^ Massjachusetts, was admitted
freeman 1638,'' which should be Robert Cutler, of Charlestowp.
DARy^LL. It is somewhat doubtful yi^hether this name should
,be Darvell or Darnell.
DAVENBOJIT, ||*RIGHARI), captain, was freeman 1634,
^nember of tfae ar. co. 1639.
[DAVIS, JiQtHI^, Barnstable, m. Hannah Linnet, and had son&
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DAVIlSON. EMERSON.
John, b. 1649; Samuel, b. 1651 ; Joseph and BeDJathin, b. 1656 ;
Simon, b. 1658.] JENKIN, Lynn, freeman 1637.
DAVISON, IfNICHOLAS, member of the ar. co. 1648.
DAVY, JOHN, Boston, freeman 1636.
DEARBORN. In 1st line, /or form, read from.
[DEWEY, THOMAS, freeman 1634, removed to Windsor as
c^arly as 1640. 1 Coll. Mass^. Hist. Soc. v. 168.]
DIMMOCK, THOMAS, Massachusetts, was admitted freeman
1636.
DINELY, WILLIAM, was admitted freeman 1637, insteid of
1635.
DODGE. In the first line, erase GEORGE, Concord 1645,
which should be DOWDY, GEORGE, freeman 1645, who Was 6f
Concord at that time.
[DODSON, AT>fTHONY, Sfcittaate 1651, whose son Gershom
was b. 1653.]
[DOTEN, JOHN, Plymouth, had sons, John, Edward and Ja-
cob, b. in 1668, 1671, 1673. This is probably the same name with
'Dotey, which Mr. Prince [i. Annals, 86] assumes as the true spell-
ing. Morton and the Old Colony records give the name Doten.
[DOUGHTY, JAMES, Scituate 1649.] Perhaps James was
the preacher, "whose name of baptism is conjectured to have been
[SAMUEL 1]
DOWSE, FRANCIS, Boston, was admitted freeman 1641.
LAWRENCE, freeman 1647.
DUNLEY, at the head of page 87, should be DUDLEY.
DUNSTER, HENRY. Mr. Whitman, p. 1^1, Hist. Sketch of
the Ar. Co., gives one of this name as a member in 1640, although
it seems hardly probable that he was the same person, who, the
same year, was inducted into the office of president of Harvard
College.
EAMES, •ANTHONY, Hingham, freeman 1637.
EATON, NATHANIEL, was born in England, a. 1609, came
to N. E. as early as 1636, was a member of the church at Cam-
bridge, from which he was excommunicated. He went to Virginia
in 1640, and having arrived there, sent for his wife and children,
who set out, but the vessel in which they took passage, was never
heard of afterwards. It appears that one son, Benoni, was left be-
hind, who, from the records of the Church of Cambridge, was living
in 1658 in the family of Deacon Thomas Cheeseholrae. Savage,
i. Winthrop, 308—313. ii. 22. Mather, ii. Magnalia, 7,8. MS
Birth and Life of Rev. Thomas Shepard, 18mo. Church Records of
Cambridge.
ELMES, RODOLPHUS, was of Scituate 1645, and had sons,
John and Joseph, b. there in 1655 and 1658.
EMERSON, JOHN, (in the 13th line of the paragraph), who
grad. at H. C. 1675, was probably the " worthy minister" at Ber-
wick 1689, [Mather, ii., Magnalia, 511] who had a happy escape
by declining an invitation to lodge at the house of Major Waldron
ftt Dover, on the night of the 27th June, that year, when the Major
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ENGLISH. GGPPE.
and 22 of his family and neighbours were killed by the Ihdlanfs.
Dr. Belknap [i. Hist. N. H. 2C5] considers him as the future fhims"
ter of New Castle 'and Portsmouth, not recollecting that he had hot
then graduated. He might have been the schoolmaster named Jn
the text, who d.'at Salem in 1712.
ENGLISH, ♦WILLIAM, Hampton, freeman 1642, representa-
tive 1646 and 1647.
E WELL, HENRY, Scituate, had sons Gershoih arid Ichabod, b.
in 1650 and 1659.
FABENS. This name is written in old records Fabins, and
was ihtendedto be so spelled. Fabgan in the 2d. line, should be
Fahyan.
FASSETT, JOHN. In an original copy of the list df freemen
for 1654, this name is John FareUy and is put under Dedham.
Fcissett therefore should be erased.
FAUNCE, JOHN, Plymouth, d. 29 Nov. 1654.
FAWN, JOHN, Ipswich, instead of John Faunce, [ii. Savage,
Winthrop, 365] was probably the freeman in 1635.
FENNER. The name of WILLIAM HARRIS shoiild be
William Harris.
FIRMING, GILES, Ipswich, was admitted freeman 1639, in-
stead of 1634.
[FIELD, ROBERT, Saco, freeman 1653.]
FISKE, JAMES, freeman 1642. In the 22d line, John, son of
Itev. John Fiske,' was b. earlier- than there stated, as from Allen's
Hist. Chelmsford, p. 127, it appears that he m. Lydia Fletcher in
1666. He died a. 1700, without children. Ibid.
FITCH, JEREMIAH. Erase Lynn 1634. The one at Lynn,
at that time removed to Reading 1644. A Jeremiah Fitch d. at
Rehoboth, 15 Oct. 1676. ZACHARY, Lynn 1634, freeman 1638,
removed to Reading.
FRARY, JOHN. The second one of this name was admitted
freeman in 1656 instead of 1638.
FREEMAN. In lines 22 and 23, p. 113, erase "and lived at
Watertown. His son Samuel was a deacon of the church."
FOWKES, HENRY, was admitted freeman in 1635 instead of
1645.
GALE. Erase the comma after HU, which is probably a con-
traction for Hugh or Humphrey.
GARDNER. In the 25th line, for Damasis, read Damaris \
for Sceth, read Seeth, and in 27th line, before 246, insert 229.
GIBBONS, ♦IIJEDWARD, member of ar. co. 1637, was its
captain in 1641, 1646 and 1654.
GIBBS. In the 17th Mae , prefix the numeral 7 to Henry, who
had 3 sons, Henry and Josiah Willard, who are named, and Wil-
liam, (omitted) who d. at Philadelphia, 22 May, 1829, sb. 72.
GIBSON, JOHN, Cambridge, was admitted freeman 1637.
GILL, ARTHUR, was admitted freeman 1641, instead of 163L
GODFREY. In the 6th line,/or Broune rcarf Browne.
GOFFE. In 1 and 2 line, p. 124, erase "Me probably went to
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<WDeBHUE. HATHAWAY.
iNewbury^.and d..9Dec. 1641," ,and insert^ JOHN, N^Vibuxjj 9id*'
mitted freeman^, 22 May^ 1639, and d. 9 Dec. 1641.
GOODHUE;, WILLIAM, Ipswich, was born about 1612.
GOQKIX. In the 6th liae, for Thompson, read Torapson,
which sbovUd be «o read in line 19th, p. 160. In 15th line, ^or
futler, read Batter.
[GORHAlVt, JOHN, who^e name is spelled in records and prints
.ed^bookSj Goram and Crorum^ appears to have resided in Barnsta-!-
ble, Plymouth, Marshfield, and Yarmouth, where his sons Jamea,
John, Joseph, and Jabe7, were born in 1.644, '51, '53, and 1656.
He died:Of a fevej at Swanzey, ,w}iile in command of a CQmpany iiy
Phillip's war, 5 Feb. 1676. I. Mather, Hist. Ind. War, 21. Pl^
mouth Colony Records J
GRAVES, THOMA)?, Charlestown, was^on q/ Johv Graves of
Kadcliffe, England, and was born 6 June, 1605.
[GRAY, EDWARD, Plymouth 1653. THOMAS, Plymouth,
,d. 7 Ji^n^, 1654.1
GREEN, JOHN, p. 129^ the freeman in 1654, was of -Cami-
Jbridge,
GREENHILL, SAMUEL, was admitted freeman 4 Marcl^
.1635.
GRIGSON. In the 4th line,/or Grove read CoYe,
^HOSSE, ISAAC, removed to Exeter, and was one 4»f the first
rulers there.
GULLIVER, ANTHONY, Massachusetts, was admitted freer
man -1666.
GUNNISON, *HUiGH, ^svas admitted freeman 1636.
HACKBURNE, ABRAHAM, Boston 1639, was admitted freev
inan 1645, instead of 163Q.
[HACKET, JABEZ, Taunton, had sops, John, h. 1.654 ; Jabez^
b. 1656. Samuel, b. 1664.]
(HAMBLEN, JOHN, Barnstable, had sons, Bartholomew, b.
1642; John, b. 1644; Eleazar, b. 1649; Israel, b. 1655..]
HAMLIN, fGILES, was of Middletown, whjBre he d. I Sept
1689, s. 67. His son John, ap assistant And juJdge,of Conn., die4
in 1733, aB. 74.
HANCOCK. In the 3d line,/or 1655, read 1665.
HANEORD, THOMAS, minister of Norwalk, Co«n. 4- in 1696,
». a. 80. MS. letter, S. W. B.
[HARLOW, WILLIAM,.Plyjnouth, had sons, William, Samuel^
William, 2d, John and Nathaniel b. from 1650 to 1664.]
HARDING, IIROBERT, member of the ar. co. 1637.
[HASEY, IIWILLIAM, member of the ar. ico. 1652.]
HATCH, WILLIAM, ScHuate, was an elder of tjbe church, and
d. 6 Npy. 1651. William and Walter, perhaps his sons, vere of
Plymouth iq 1652.
HATHAWAY. The authority for this article probably relied
on4radLtioQ,^hich, after the lapse of two centuries, is seldom entitlet)
to much confideoice, unless supported by written memorials. The
article may be expunged, and the following substituted.
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fiATHAWAY: tfOWfi.
[H'ATHAWAY, ARTHUR, Plymouth, in. Sarah Gook 1652,
and their son' John was b. 1653. JOHN, Barnstable, had a son
John; b. in* 1658, who, with his father, was probably of Taunton in
1689. JOSEPH, Taunton, was admitted freeman in- 1657. Plym-
outh CoJony Records, MS copy of Mr. Jackson^ of Boston.]
HAWKINS, ||*THOMAS, member of the ar. co/ 1638 instead-
of 1644, and representative 1639 and 1644. [||TH0M!^S; member
of the ar. co. 1649.1
HEYWOOD. In the 6th line for Benone, read Benoni.
GEORGE, Concord, wrote his name Heaward, He was admitted^
freeman 1638.
HIGGINSON, JOHN, Salem, was admitted freeman 1636.
HILL. In the 9th line, for Dorchester, read Bridgewater.
ROGER, Saco, freeman 1653. Folsom. ||*VALENTINE, was
representative of Dover.
HILLIARD; HUGH, waB-admitted freeman in 1634 instead of
1644.
HILTONi In the 5th lin^, for apprised, rtad appraised. Cath«
arine, the widow of Edward Hilton, d. 29 May, 1676. ♦WILLIAM, .
Newbury, Dover, &c. was admitted freeman 1642.
HINCKLEY, t<STHOMAS, m. Mary Richards 1641, and three
of his sons, Samuel, Thomas, and Ebenezer, were b. in 1652, 54, ,
and 62.
HINSDALE, IIROBERT, was member of the ar. co. 1645.
[HOBBY, JOHN, Massachusetts, and probably Dorchester 1637,
[Winthrop, ii. 348] may have been the ancestor to the Hobbys of
Boston at the close of the 17 century. Two of the name; Wensley
and William, natives of Boston, grad. at H. C. in 1723 and 1725^
the last of whom was minister of Reading.]
[HODGES, ANDREW, Massachusetts, was admitted freeman
in 1641.
[HOLLAND, ANGELL, Boston, freeman 1636, had a son Tho-
mas, b. in 1644. CHRISTOPHER, Boston 1647, d. 4 March,
1704, 8B. 91. EDWARD, N. Hampshire 1 664. JEREMIAH, who
grad, at H. C, went to England, and was a minister in Northamp-
tonshire. JOHN, Dorchester, freeman 1636.]
HOLYOKE, ♦EDWARD, Lynn, probably did not remove to
Springfield, as he died at Rumney-Marsh [Chelsea]. See Lewis's
Hist. Lynn, 28.
HOUGH, SAMUEL, m. a daughter of Rev. Z. Syrames. He
left one son, a minor. His estate amounted to ,£1822, 75, Sd, This
name continued in Boston many years, and now exists in Connec-
ticut, N. Hampshire, and Vermont.
HOWE. There having been two Edward Howes contemporary,
and both representatives, a mistake occurs respecting the time of
service of each. •EDWARD, of Lynn, was admitted freeman, 8
Dec. 1636, and was representative at three courts, March, May, and
Sept. 1638. ♦EDWARD, Wat^rtown, freeman 1634, was repre-
sentative at five courts in 1635, 1636, and 1639. In the 8th line of
HOWE, /or Edward, read Ephraim.
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HOWLAND. KBLLQND;
ROWLAND, JOHN, was upwards of 80 years. The Plymouth
Colony Records say of him, that he was ''an ancient professor of;
the ways of Christ; one of the first comers, and proved a useful in-
strument of good, and was the last man that was lefl that came in
the May Flower." It seems that John Alden, who came. in the
May Flower was living until 1687.
HULL. In the 7th line, afUr Baptist church, add in BQSton.
HUSSEY. In the 6th line, for left two, read had three, and.
after John, iruert Joseph. Christopher Hussey, was cast away and
lost on the coast of Florida in 1685. Lewis, Hist. Lynn, 29.
HUTCHINSON, ||SAMUEL, was member of the ar. co. 1652.
IDE, NICHOLAS, Rehoboth, had a son Nathaniel, bom in
1678.
INES, MATTHIAS, was admitted freeman in 1636^ instea4
of 1646.
JACKSON, EDMUND, Boston, died in 1683, having had four
wives and 15 children. Three of his sons, Samuel, Jeremiah, and
Edmund, survived him. In the 14th line from bottom, page 159,
for the second 1640, read 1644, and transpose the b.
JAMES, EDWARD, should be EDMUND. FRANCIS, King-
ham, was admitted freeman 1643.
JANVRIN, GEORGE, Portsmouth 1684, was the member of
Mr. Moodey's Church, mentioned by Belknap, [i. Hist. N. H, 165]
Alden, [Account of Rel. Soc. in 1 Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. x.] and
Adams, [Annals of Portsmouth, 78.] JOHN Janvrin, probably a
descendant, grad. at H. C. 1728.
JEFTS, HENRY. This name i§ erroneously printed Sciffs^ in
2 Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. ii. 162.
JENKS, IIRICHARD, Boston, member of ar, co. 16Q6, was ad-
mitted to 2d church, Oct. 1682.
JENNER, THOMAS. Two of this name were admitted free-
men, one in 1636, the other in 1639. The name of the last is spell-
ed Ginner in the Colony Records, and he might have been the dep-
uty from Weymouth 1640. The name existed in Boston; many
years, and Thomas Jenner was admitted men^ber of the ar. co.
1673, and David Jenner grad. at H« C. in 1753.
JOHNSON, DAVY, was admitted freeman, 18 May 1631.
HUMPHREY, had sons, John, Joseph, ani} Benjamin, b. in Scitu-
ate in 1653, 1655, and 1657. RICHARD, Lynn, and perhaps
Salem, was freeman 1637.. WILLIAM, Charlestown, was admit-
ted freeman 1635.
JORDAN, ROJ^ERT, was an Episcopal minister at Cape
Elizabeth. He m. a daughter of Jphn Winter, from whom he in-
herited a large landed estate. He removed to Portsmouth in 1676,
and d. there three years after. Sullivan. Greenleaf, Ecd. Sketch-
es, 224. Geo. Folsom, MS letter.
KEAINE, IIBENJAMIN, member of ar. co. 1638. CHRIS-
TOPHER, (spelled Cayney) was admitted freeman 1638.
KELLOND, THOMAS, Boston, had sons, John, Thomas, and
Richard, baptized in 1673, 1675, and 1681.
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KELLY. LOWDER.
KELLY, ABEL, Salem, was admitted freeman 1641. KRO-
GER, was of the Isles of Shoals as early as 1668.
KEMPTON, EPHRAIM, Scituate, d. 1655- Sons Ephraim
and Manasseh were b. in 1645 and 1651. MANASSEH, Ply-
mouth, d. 14 Jan. 1663.
KENRICK, JOHN, Boston and Newton, was admitted freeman
in 1640. JOHN, of Ipswich, was probably the freeman of 1654.
KENT, JOHN, the freeman in 1654, was of Dedham. Erase,
therefore, in 13th and 14th lines, p. 168, '* perhaps the freeman of
1654."
KILBURN, GEORGE, Rowley, was admitted freeman 1640,
instead of 1644.
KINGSWORTH, HENRY, should be KINGSNORTH, HEN-
RY. 1 Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. x.
KIRBY, WILLIAM, Boston, freeman 1647.
KIRMAN, JOHN, Cambridge, was admitted freeman 1633. •
KITCHEN, JOHN, Salem, freeman 1643, instead of 1642.
KITTREDGE. In the 6th line, far 1614, read 1714. The
early genealogy of the Kittredges may be found in the oldest book
[4to] of the records of births in Billerica.
KNIGHT, JOHN, Newbury, freeman 1636. RICHARD, Bos-
ton, freeman 1642. [RICHARD, Portsmouth 1643. MS letter of
John Kelly, esq.] ROBERT, Boston, d. 27 June, 1655.
KNOTT, GEORGE, Sandwich, d. in 1648.
LAKE, THOMAS, a captain and merchant of Boston, and mem-
ber of the 2d church. He was a joint owner, with Major Clarke of
Boston, of the Island of Arrowsick, in Maine, where he had a house
and occasionally resided, and near which he was killed by the In-
dians, 14 August, 1675. Hubbard, Eastern Wars, 41,42. MS
Records of 2d Church in Boston.
LAMBERT, FRANCIS, Rowley, was admitted freeman 1640.
LANGHORNE. In last line, for Patince, rcarf Patience.
LARKHAM. In first line, for Notham, read Northam. Those
of the name in Beverly, where it still exists, wrote it Larcom.
LA WES, FRANCIS, Salem, was admitted freeman in 1641, in-
stead of 1637.
LEEDS, BENJAMIN, Dorchester, freeman 1645. The Benja-
min, freeman 1670, might be a son. RICHARD, Salem, freeman
1647.
[LEARNED, WILLIAM, freeman 1634, was early at Woburn;
and d. there, 5 April, 1646.]
[LEUSON, JOHN, Dedham, one of the founders of the church,
was admitted freeman 1638.1
LOCKWOOD, ROBERT, Watertown, freeman 1037.
LONG, ROBERT. Three of this name appear to have been
admitted freemen in 1635, 1636, and 1649, one of whom was mem-
ber of the ar. co. in 1639.
LOWDER, RICHARD, freeman 1642. Perhaps Lowden and
Lewder were the same name.
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LOWELL. MdSfeLY, _
LOWELL. From Percival Lovrle, or Lowell, it is supfposed de-
scended Ebenezer Lowell, of Boston, who d. in 1711, aged a. 30,
whose son John was born 14 March, 1704, grad. at H. C. 1791,
Was ordained at Newbury, 19 Jan. 1726, and d. 16 May, 1767, «.
63. John, son of Rev. John Lowell, was b. at NeWbury, l7 JKtl^j
1743, grad. at H. C. 1760, was a distinguished 6h&racter ; a mem-
ber of the Amer. Acad., LL. D., Judge of the U. S. District Cotlrt,
and d. 6 May, 1802, leaving sons, John, LL. D.^ born 6 Oct. 1759,
grad. at H. C. 1786; Francis Cab&t, b. 7 April, 1776, the founder
of the Waltham factory, and the proprietor of the Lowell factories,
who d. 10 Aug. 1817, bb. 42, and Charles, D. D., b. 15 Aug. 1782,
grad. at H. C. 1800, and was ordained over the West Church in
Boston, 1 Jan. 1806. JOHN, Boston 1655. t feel some doubt
respecting this name and William Lowell, freeman 1642, [Savage,
ii. Winthrop, 372] as there appears to have been a John Lovell or
Louell of Boston, and a William Lovell of Dorchester, at these
periods.
[LUDLOW, GEORGE, Massachusetts, requested freedom 19
Oct. 1630. Savage, ii. Winthrop, 361.]
LUKAR, 1|[ -] member of the ar. co. 1640, might be Henry
or John Looker or Luker, who were very early at Salisbury.
LUSHER, ♦IIJELEAZAR, Dbrchester, member of the ar. eo.
1638.
LYFORD. In the 7th line, for Mordicai, read MORDECAI.
MARSH, GEORGE, Hingham, was admitted freeman 1636.
MATHIS, JOHN, freeman 1642.
MARSHALL. In the 8th line,/or Mansbal), read Marshall.
MA VERICK, JOHN, Dorchester, Was admitted freeman 18
May, 1631.
MA YHEW, THOMAS, Wat^rtown, freeman 16&4, itistead of
1637.
MAYO, NATHANIEL, m. Hannah Prence, atid had soiis,
Thomas, b. 1680; Nathaniel, b. 1652; Samuel, b. 1655, and The-
ophilus, b. 1659. [JOHN, probably a brother of Nathaniel, ha*
sons, John, William, James, Samuel, and Nathaniel, b; after 1651.]
MELCHER, EDWARD, Portsmouth 1684. Belknap, 1. Hist.
N. H. 324]
[MERRY, WALTER, Bostoti, was admitted freeman 1634.]
MILLER, THOMAS, Springfield, was killed by the Indians, 5
Oct. 1675. Sprague, Hist. Disc. 21 .
MITCHELL. In 1st and 2d lines, erase '* was probably son of
the following," and insert " Lincoln, Hist. Hinghatn."
MOORE, JOHN. One of the three freemen of this name was
member of the ar. co. 1638.
MORRIL, IIISAAC, Roxbnry, Was member of the ar. do. 16^8.
MOSELY, IISAMUEL, member of the ar. co. 1671, and captain
in Philip's War, might be son of Henry Modsley dir Miudsley, of*
Brain tree, if, as has been said, Modsley and Mosely acre the sitme
name.
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l>tOTT. PARKMAN.
MOTT, ADAM, was admitted freeman in 1636.
MOULTON. In the 13th line, erase " He was admitted free-
9nan 1681."
[MUNINGS, MAHALEEL, was admitted to the 2d church, 27
Woy. 1659.1
[NETTLETON, JOHN, Killingworth, 1663. D. D. Field,
Hist. Middlesex Co. 106.1
NEWBURY, ♦THOMAS, freeman 1634, was probably of Dor-
Chester instead of Lynn. He was representative at the March and
May sessions in 1635. RICHARD, was admitted freeman 1645,
instead of 1655.
[NEWTON, RICHARD. A second Richard Newton was ad-
mitted freeman 1647.1
NICKERSON, WILLIAM, was probably the proprietor of con-
siderable lands in Monamoy or Chatham, Mass. 1665. 1 Coll.
Mass; Hist. Soc. viii. 151.
NODDLE, WILLIAM, was admitted freeman, 18 May, 1631.
NORTON, JOHN, Ipswich and Boston, freeman 1637.
NO YES. In the 12th line, p. 200, /or Lym, read Lyme.
OAKM AN. For M^bzar, read Melzar.
ODLIN, JOHN, Boston, was admitted freeman 1634.
OLIVER. In the 11th line, Johp, the son of John Oliver, ra.
Susanna, and d. in 1683, leaving a son Sweet, b. in 1668, and bap-
tized in the 2d church Boston, in 1678. Theolher children named
in the 24th and 25th lines should be erased, as they belonged to
another John Oliver. In the 8th line from the bottom, erase ** He
removed to Newbury, and d. in 1642," and insert ** JOHN^ Newbu-
jy, was b. a. 1616, came from the city of Bristol, and was living in
Newbury in March, 1643. [Affidavit in 1st vol. of Suffolk Reg. of
Deeds] but probably died soon after." In the 9th line, p. 212, for
%he preceding, read Peter. [THOMAS, Salem 1638^ had a wife
Mary, who gave the church there much disturbance. See Win-
throp's i. Hist. N. E. 281, and Felt's Annals Salem, 117.]
[ORMSBY, JACOB, Rehoboth, 4- 8 March 1677. JACOB,
perhaps his son, d. 16 Feb. 1677J
OWEN, THOMAS or WILLIAM, was pro)>ably the member of
the ax. CO. 1639.
PADDY, WILLIAM, Plymouth and Boston, d. in J658 instead
of 1653. Four of his sons were, John, b. 1643, perhaps the one
who d. at Boston in 1663; Samuel, b. 1645; Joseph, b. and died
1649; and William, b. 1652. The William who was member of
ithe ar. co. niighit be the preceding, and the one who, according to
the Boston records, d. 11 Nov 1653, might be his son William, b.
in 1652.
[PAINE, MOSES, who might, instead of the MOSES, freeman
in 1647, be member of the ar. oo., was admitted freeman in .1641.]
PAINTER. In the 3d and 4th line, erase " He came to N. E.
ia 1630."
PALFRAY. In 1st line, page 216, after years, insert since.
PARKMAN, ^LLAS, D4»rchester, was admitted freeman 1635.
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PARSONS. RICHMOND.
[PARSONS, ROBERT, Lynn, was admitted freeman 1638.]
PEACOCK, RICHARD, Roxbury, was probably the freeman
1639, entered in the 'colony records under the name of Richard
Pococke,
PEAKE, CHROSTOPHER, should be PEAKE, CHRISTO-
PHER.
PECK, NATHANIEL. One of this name died at Rehoboth,
25 Aug. 1676.
PENTICUS, JOHN, the freeman 1640, was of Charlestown.
PERKINS, JOHN, who arrived in N. E. 5 Feb. 1631, was pro-
bably the person who was admitted freeman the 18th May follow-
ing. Two others of the name of John Perkins were admitted free-
men in 1633 and 1637. WILLIAM, probably the representative
in 1644, was admitted freeman 1634.
[PERRY, ISAAC, Massachusetts, was admitted freeman 1633.]
PHILLIPS, JOHN, the deacon of the 2d church in Boston, d.
in 1682. NICHOLAS, Weymouth, freeman 1640. WILLIAM,
Charlestown, freeman 1640.
PIKE. In the 21st line, 230th page,/or 1788, read 1688.
[POND, DANIEL, Dedham, was admitted freeman 1654.]
POPE, THOMAS, Yarmouth 1646, and Plymouth, had sons,
Seth, Thomas, and John. b. in 1647, 1651, and 1652.]
PORTER. In the 3d line, for EDMUND, read EDWARD,
and erase " Perhaps this name should be Edward Porter."
POWELL, MICHAEL, Boston, d, 28 Jan. 1673. In 1st line,
p. 234, erase " Increase Mather."
PRATT. For ANTHONY, read ABRAHAM, who was pro-
bably connected with the Pratts of Plymcmth. MATTHEW, Wey-
mouth, freeman 1640 instead of 1651.
[PRESBURY, JOHN, Sandwich, died in 1648.]
PRIEST, JAMES. Two of this name appear to have been ad-
mitted freemen in 1643.
PYNCHON. In the 1st line, p. 238, for Edward, read Elizur.
aUINCY. In the 10th line, for Daiel, read Daniel.
RAINSBOROW, [ ] Lord Clarendon [Hist, of the Rebel-
lion, 3219] gives an account of his death in 1648.
BANDALL, WILLIAM, Scituate, had sons Joseph, William,
John, and Job, b. from 1642 to 1654.
RAVENSDALE. In the 3d line; for 1656, read 1556.
RAWSON, EDWARD, d. at Dorchester, a. 1694. The inven-
tory of his estate is dated 2 Feb. 1693, 4. His son Grindall, b. in
1658, m. Susan, daughter of Rev. John Wilson, of Medfield, and
had 8 sons and 5 daughters. Family Genealogy.
READ, ROBERT, Exeter and Hampton, was probably one of
the company lost in a boat going out from Hampton, 20 Oct. 1657.
PHILIP, Weymouth, was admitted freeman 1664, instead of 1660.
[REEVES, THOMAS, Massachusetts, freeman 1645.]
RICHARDS, ♦lit JOHN, Dorchester, removed to Boston, where
be was admitted to the 2d church in 1664, and d. 2 April, 1694.
[RICHMOND^ JOHN, Taunton, had sons, John, born 1656;
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ROBINSON. SPARHAWK.
Thomas, b. 1658; Josi^h, b. 1653; Edward, b. 1665 : Samuel, b.
1668.]
ROBINSON, WILLIAM, Salem, was admitted freeman 27 Dec.
1642. WILLIAM, Dorchester, freeman 18 May, 1642. [RICH-
ARD, Massachusetts, was admitted freeman in 1641.]
ROBY. For Heny, read HENRY. Many of this name in New-
Hampshire have written the name Robie, HENRY, New-Hamp-
shire d. in 1688, leaving wife Sarah, and sons Thomas, Samuel,
Ichabod, and John.]
[ROGERS, JOSEPH, Sandwich, (probably the same who was
at rlymouth 1623) was a lieutenant. His children were, Joseph,
b. 1635; Thomas, b. 1638; John, b. 1642; Mary, b. 1644; James,
b. 1648; Hannah, b. 1652.]
RUSSELL, JOHN, Cambridge, was admitted freeman 1636.
After his name, in lines 23d and 24th, erase *' may be the one called
seh,, and admitted freeman in 1681." J*RICHARD, Charlestown,
freeman 1641.
SARGENT, and SERGEANT, WILLIAM, Charlestown, pp.
254 and 258, was admitted freeman 1639.
[SAUNDERSON, ROBERT, Massachusetts, was admitted free-
man 1639.]
[SAVORY, THOMAS, Plymouth, had sons, Moses, Samuel,
and Thomas, b. in 1649, 1651, and 1652.]
SCARLET, JOHN, was member of the 2d church Boston, and
d. 4 May, 1675. SAMUEL, of Boston 1665, a captain, was ad-
mitted freeman 1673.
SCOTTOW. In the 7th line, /or Scotts, read Scotto.
SHED, DANIEL, was of Billerica as early as 1660. Two of
his sons, Samuel and Nathan, were b. there in 1660 and 1668. He
d. 27 July, 1708. Elizabeth, his wife, d. 17 Jan. 1700. His son
Daniel d. of small pox, in 1690, and John d. in 1737, ae. 81.
SHERBURNE. In the 10th line, for 1734, read 1774. Capt.
[Samuel] Sherburne, of Portsmouth, a worthy officer, was killed at
Macquoit in 1691. Belknap, i. Hist. N. H. 212.
SHERMAN, EDMUND, was probably of Watertown. JOHN,
the captain, of Watertown, was a distinguished land surveyor. He
was employed with Jonathan Ince in 1652, in finding the most
northerly part of Merrimack river. See Belknap, i. Hist. N. H. 87.
SAMUEL, Boston, was admitted freeman 1640.
SMITH, [HENRY, freeman 18 May, 1631. HENRY, free-
man 1640.] One of these was probably Capt. Henry Smith of
Springfield. In the 29th line, p. 267, erase '' MATTHIAS, Massa-
chusetts, freeman 1645," and insert " freeman 1645," in the next
line, after Watertown. ♦THOMAS, the freeman 1633, and the
representative 1635, was probably of Watertown, instead of Wey-
mouth. THOMAS, of Salem, was admitted freeman 1637.
SOUTIiCOT, RICHARD, appears to have been of Pascataqua
1639. J. Kelly, esq.
SPARHAWK. In the 4th line, p. 270, for 1665, read 1765,
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SPENOBR. WILLARR
SPENCER, ♦WILLIAM, was represeqtative 5 years, from 1034
to 1638, inclusive.
[SPOONER, WILLIAM, an inhabitaat of Plymouth in 1661.1
STEDMAN, JOHN, Cacabridge, came over in 1689, with the
family of Rev. Josse Glover, in whose employment he was, and
from whose estate some of his children received legacies.
STEVENS. In the 15th line, erase Abbot, Hist. Andover, 2J,
and insert it afler 71, in the 14th line.
STILEMAN, fELIAS, 2d, was admitted freeman 1642, and
probably member of the ar. co. 1645.
STOW, SAMUEL, the graduate at H, C 1645, is said by Mr,
Shattuck, [MS letter] to have been son of Thomas Stow, instead of
John Stow of Roxbury. He went with two brothers to Middle-
town, Conn., where he was a preacher, a. 10 yePTS. He died after
1697. /
STUDSON, ROBERT, Scitiiate, h^ sons, Joseph, h. 1639 ;
Benjamin, b. 1641 ; Thomas ; Samuel, b. 1646 ; John, b. 1648 ;
Robert, b. 1653.
[STURGES, EDWARD, Yarmouth 1648. JOSEPH, Yarmouth
1650.]
[STURTEVANT, SAMUEL, Plymouth 1650, had sops, Joha,
jSamuely'^and James.]
TOOTHACHER, ROGER, should be TOOTHACKER, RO-
GER. In the records of Billerica, the name is spelled Toothaker.
[TULLY, JOHN, the author of almanacks from 1681 to 1702,
was b. in the parish of Horley, in the county of Surry, England, a,
1639. He settled in Middletown, Conn., when a Ud, and died 5
Oct. 1701. Field, Stat. Account of Middlesex co. 104.]
TYNG, lltEDWARD, jr. member of ar. co. 1668. HfJONA-
THAN, ar. co. 1670.
[VARNEY, THOMAS, Boston, was admitted to 2d church, 8
Jan. 1664.]
[VIXON, ROBERT, Eastham 1652. Copy of Plymouth Colo-
ny Records.]
WADE. In the 8th line, erase " also."
WALTON, GEORGE, New-Castto and Portsrmwtb, d. 1686,
over 70 years. >
[WALTER, THOMAS, father of Rev, Nehemiah Walter, lived
in Boston, and was admitted member of the 2d church, 2 Nov.
1680]
WAY, AARON, was of Boston, and admitted to the 2d church,
1660. RICHARD, also of Boston, was member of the 2d church,
1660.
{WEYMOUTH, WILLIAM, brother of Robert, of N. H. died
1654.]
WHITSON. Read this name WHISTON.
WILLARD. In the 13th line from the bottom, for presented,
read preserved. In the 12th line, cfter folio volume, insert " of di*
vinity." In the 4th line, p. 319, for Bideford, recfd Bidde£>f d,
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WOODBURY. YOUNG.
WOODBURY. In the 12th line, for Pradcistown, read Atf-
trim.
WORCESTER, WILLIAM. In the last line but one, and in
the last line of the article Worcester, for Noah Webster, esq. read
Noah Worcester, esq.
YALE, IIDAVID, Boston, was member of the ar. co. 1640.
[YATES, JOHN, Eastham 1655, had a son John.]
[YOUNG, JOHN, Plymouth, had a son John, b. 1647.]
To the following persons may be added or corrected the year of
their admission as freemen of the Massachusetts Colony.
Allen, |t*Bozoun, Hingham 1641 ; Allen, John, Charlestown,
1641 ; Allen, William, 1631 ; Archer, Henry, 1641 ; Armitage,
Joseph, 1637 ; Aspinwall, Peter, 1637 ; Atkinson, Theodore, 1642 ;
Barber, ||*George, 1647; Bateman, William, 1642; Batchelor,
John, Watertown 1635; Batchelor, Stephen, 1635; Bourne, Gar-
rett, 1635; Bright, Henry, Watfei-lbwii 1635; Suck, James, 1639;
Buckminster, Thomas, 1646; Bunker, George, 1635; Bulfinch,
JoHn, 1642; Buttrick, William, 1647; Busby^ Nicholas^ 1638;
Bulkley, John^ 1642; Casely^ William^ 1637; ChapiQ) Samuel,
1641 ; Dassett, John, 1640 ; Dow, Henry^ 1638 ; Draper, Roger,
1639; Ely^ Nathaniel, 1635; Evans^ Richard^ 1645; Fellows^ 8a«
muel, 1645 ; Firnam, HeAk-y, 1645 ; Fidke, Nathan, 1643 ; Fiske,
•Wtniamj 1642; Foster, ||»Hopestill, 1639; Fowlet, PhlHp, 1634;
Gay, Jbhn, (the 3d of the name) 1645 ; Genery, Lambert, 1645 ;
Gott, Chatles, 1681 ; Graftoti, Joset)h, 1637 ; Hastings, John, 1643 ;
Healy, William, 1645; Heath, William, 1633; Hildreth, Richard,
1643; Hdlt, Nicholas, 163t; Hunt, William. Concord, 1641;
Palmer, Walter, 1631 ; PaJ-ker, Thomas, Newbury, 1634 ; Park-
man, Elias, Dorchester, 1635 ; Parmenter, John, 2d, 1643 ; Par-
tridge, William, 1638; Pay son, Giles, 1637; Peters, Hugh, 1636;
Pierce, Robert, Dorchester 1642 ; Prentice. Valentine, 1632 \
Rawling, Richard, 1643; Ripley, William, 1642 ; Scales, William,
1640; Scott, Robert, 1636: Scott, Thomas, 1635; Shepard, Ed-
ward, 1643 ; Shore, Samson, 1642 ; Singletary, Richard, Newbury,
1638 ; Southwick, Lawrence, 1639 ; Spencer, Roger, 1652 ; Stan-
yan, Anthony, 1644; Steele, John, 1634; Stevens, John, 1641;
Strong, John, 1637 ; Swain, Richard, 1640 ; Swan, Richard, 1638 ;
Underbill, John, 1631 ; Wadsworth, William, 1632 ; Waite, Ga-
maliel, 1635 ; Waite, *John, the representative, was probably the
freeman of 1647 ; Wales, Nathaniel, 1637; Warham, John, 1631 ;
Warner, Daniel, 1641; Way, Richard, 1643; Wells, Richard,
Lynn 1638; Wheatley, John, 1643; White, Nicholas, 1643;
White, Thomas, 1640; White, William, Newbury and Haverhill
1642; Wenbourn, or Wenbane, William, 1644; Wilson, John,
1632.
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ADDITIONAL EXPLANATIONS.
In arranging those of the same surname alphabetical ord^ff has generally he^n
regarded; so that sons are sometimes placed befol« their fathers.
£ach section or sentence beginning with a name in ca^pitals is to be considered a»
a separate article, or distinct paragraph. It was at first intended that the work
should be printed in such a manner that a separate paragraph should be allotted to
every person printed in capitals, but the limits would not allow of it.
The children of the early settlers in many instances, from not having the necessa-
ry information, are entirely omitted ; sometimes but an imperfect list <^ them is
given, and frequently only the names of the sons are mentioned. Where numbered
with Arabick numerals,, the family is generally complete.
There are probably some errors in assigning the residence of freemen, and espe^
cially where there were several persons of the same name.
Dates, where copied by myself, and generally, if not always, when furnished by
others, are made according to original records. Characters or marks, denoting office
and station, are sometimes Omitted by mistake, but not being very essential, their
omission will not be here named.
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